Brussels, 22/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - Forty-eight MEPs have called on the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to end the measures being taken against the town of Zhanaozen, following a demonstration in support of striking oil workers that was crushed by police on 16 December, to withdraw troops.
In a letter sent to the Kazakh president on 21 December on the initiative of Paul Murphy (GUE, Ireland), the MEPs from 17 countries and six political groups (mainly GUE and Greens, but...