Kyrgyz court upholds life sentence for dissident who received U.S. rights award
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Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court upheld a life sentence on Wednesday for a prominent dissident convicted of “inciting inter-ethnic hatred” in the former Soviet republic, quashing hopes for his release under a new leadership.