The former president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev was released from a correctional colony, Russian media write.
“Labed today, now we are going to go home,” the source said.
In June 2010, in the Osh and Jalal-Abad regions in the south of Kyrgyzstan there were clashes between the Kyrgyz and Uzbek sides, during which, according to official figures, 442 people were killed and about 2 thousand were injured in varying severity. Atambayev, who served as president of Kyrgyzstan from 2011 to 2017, was deprived of presidential immunity in June 2019, he was charged with corruption. Later he was also charged with organizing riots in the center of Bishkek. On June 23, 2020, the Pervomaisky District Court of Bishkek sentenced Atambayev to 11 years and two months in prison with the confiscation of property in the case of illegal release in 2013 of the criminal authority of Aziz Batukaev. The subsequent appeals of the lawyers of the ex-president were rejected.