[x-pubpol] Report: Kazakhstan shuts off Internet in protesting town

[Joly MacFie]

http://news.techeye.net/internet/mobile-internet-connections-cut-in-kazakhstan


President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been in charge for 20 years,
> imposed a three-week state of emergency in an oil town where 10 people were
> killed in a clash between cops and demonstrators.
>


> Authorities insist that order had been restored in Zhanaozen, a city of
> 90,000 in Kazakhstan's far southwest.
>


> But part of the crackdown involved switching off all mobile phones and
> internet connections in Zhanaozen to prevent protestors organising
> themselves.


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