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Detention of blogger: Supporters of Mirlan Uraimov hold rally in Bishkek

Rally with a demand to release Mirlan Uraimov, a member of Butun Kyrgyzstan party, is held near the building of the Bishkek City Court in the capital. A civil activist Adilet Ali Myktybek told 24.kg news agency.

The participants demand to change the measure of restraint against Mirlan Uraimov from detention to house arrest.

Mirlan Uraimov was detained on February 8. He is suspected of public calls for a violent seizure of power. A post was published on the social media, which was allegedly written by a user Mirlan Uraimov. It is written in the Kyrgyz language that it is necessary to change the government as it does not work well. The detainee himself says that he did not write this.

On February 10, Mirlan Uraimov was placed in the remand prison of the State Committee for National Security.

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