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Kazakhstani citizen sentenced for life imprisonment in USA

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19:01 10.03.2005
text: "Kazakhstan Today"
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Kazakhstani citizen Assel Abdygapparova has been sentenced for life imprisonment, ineligible for parole for 40 years, in the USA, director of Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry's Consular Service Department Ualikhan Konyrbayev stated today at a press conference in Almaty.

The lawyers intend to make an appellation, U. Konyrbayev said. Before that "we can not answer the question - where will Assel serve her sentence," he noted. "However we hope that she could leave to serve her sentence here in Kazakhstan after a time."

Kazakh Diaspora in the USA will help Assel to pay lawyer services totaling $75,000, U. Konyrbayev said.

Earlier it was reported that the court of San Antonio, Texas, acknowledged the A. Abdygapparova's guilt in committing the murder in March 2001.

Assel has a daughter, 11, and a son who was born the next day after the arrest.

Translated by Nataliya Shirinskikh