Kazakhstan jails 12 over rare anti-China protest

Police in Kazakhstan said on Friday they had arrested 12 people and fined six others over a rare protest in which a portrait of Chinese leader Xi Jinping was burned.

Protesters at the rally on Thursday accused China of orchestrating the disappearance of a Kazakh citizen and of buying up Kazakh land.

Local media and rights groups say Alimnur Turganbay has not been seen since July, when he was arrested by border officials in China's western province of Xinjiang.

Beijing has been accused for years of repressing the Muslim Uyghur minority in the province, which borders Kazakhstan.

Kazakh police said protestors at the demonstration in the Almaty region, near the border with China, had "committed unlawful acts, including the burning of the st

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