Kazakh Activist Starts Hunger Strike To Protest Jailing

Activist Vlada Yermolcheva of the rights group Oyan, Qazaqstan (Wake Up, Kazakhstan) launched a hunger strike on May 11 after a court in Almaty rejected her appeal against a 15-day jail term she was handed over the weekend, Yermolcheva's lawyer Talghat Miermanov told RFE/RL.