The Birinchi Mai district court in Bishkek has resumed the high-profile trial of 27 politicians, journalists, and activists without 11 of the defendants present after they protested against a Kyrgyz-Uzbek border demarcation deal.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry has protested the arrests of several former separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan after Baku reclaimed control of the ethnic Armenian-populated breakaway region in a lightning military operation last month.
Kyrgyz security officers have killed notorious organized-crime figure Kamchy Kolbaev (aka Kamchybek Asanbek), who was added by Washington to a list of major global drug-trafficking suspects in 2011.
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