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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch,
have previously called for the release of Mr Kozlov and other opposition
activists, and described them as prisoners of conscience.
Kazakhstan has countered that the opposition activists are a threat to
national security and to the stability of the country.
The riot on Dec 16 in the scruffy oil town of Zhanaozen in the west of the
country posed the biggest threat to stability in Kazakhstan since
independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Since the riot, the security forces have cracked down on political activists
and journalists linked to the opposition.
This month a court in Aktau, the largest town near Zhanaozen, jailed 13 people
for instigating the riot. Another court also jailed five policemen in May
for the death of the protesters.
The security services link Mr Kozlov to fugitive billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov
who has openly funded Kazakh opposition. Ablyazov fled a British court
earlier this year where he had been standing trial for perjury.
In March, the security services accused Ablyazov of plotting to plant bombs in
Almaty in order to incite social disorder and revolution.
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