Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek City Court upholds pretrial detention for former Kumtor gold mine manager timesca.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesca.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Bishkek City Court has upheld a lower court decision to keep in pretrial detention the former interim manager of Kyrgyzstan's Kumtor gold mine, Tengiz Bolturuk, who is being held on charges of financial misdeeds that he has rejected.
A court in Bishkek on March 23 fined a noted civil rights activist, Aijan Myrsalieva, 100,000 soms ($1,145), after finding her guilty of inciting hatred.
The wife of the jailed former interim manager of Kyrgyzstan's Kumtor gold, Tengiz Bolturuk, says she has gone on a hunger strike to protest against a court's rejection of his request to be transferred from a pretrial detention center to house arrest.