RFE/RL Journalist Taken Into Custody In Kazakhstan

(RFE/RL) December 20, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Azamat Zhetpisbaev, a correspondent working with RFE/RL's Kazakh Service, has been taken into custody in Kazakhstan.

Zhetpisbaev normally covers events in neighboring Kyrgyzstan but was taken into custody by Kazakh financial police on December 15 while on a visit to Kazakhstan.


It remains unclear what charges have been brought against him.