A court in Kazakhstan has jailed 13 people for their role in deadly riots last December in the remote desert oil town of Zhanaozen. At least 15 people were killed in the unrest and more than 100 injured.


The hearings were conducted at a youth centre that had been turned into a makeshift courtroom in the Caspian port city of Aktau. 

The violence in Zhanaozen was the worst unrest seen in Kazakhstan since its independence from the Soviet Union more than 20 years ago.