The inter-district economic court of Almaty authorized the liquidation of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan opposition party on Thursday. The court upheld arguments of the Almaty prosecutor\'s office in support of the party liquidation, an Interfax correspondent reported from the courtroom. The Almaty prosecutor\'s office asked for the liquidation of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan because of a political statement the party adopted at its congress on December 11, 2004. The statement calls \"for resolute public actions, including civil disobedience campaigns, and declares the incumbent authorities anti- people and illegitimate,\" the prosecutors said. The party was formed last year under the chairmanship of Galymzhan Zhakiyanov. In 2002 Zhakiyanov was sentenced to seven years in custody for the abuse of office in his being the head of the Pavlodar regional administration. He was moved from a penitentiary to a convict settlement in August 2004. The opposition calls Zhakiyanov a political prisoner. (Interfax-Kazakhstan)