Perizat Suranova, a member of the Committee for Protection of Kempir-Abad reservoir, who is being kept in Bishkek remand center 1 on charges of attempt to organize mass riots in order to seize power, was hospitalized. Human rights activist Aziza Abdirasulova reported on Facebook.
Perizat Suranova was taken to the Chui Regional Hospital. Earlier, she asked the Ombudsman of the country, deputies and officials to assist in urgent hospitalization, to check the facts of discrimination and ill-treatment against the accused in the so-called Kempir-Abad case and the legality of the actions of the administration of the remand center in order to detect selective attitude towards the arrested.
The Committee for protection of Kempir-Abad reservoir was created on October 22. It includes activists, politicians and MPs. On the same day, in an interview with Kabar news agency, President Sadyr Japarov said: the authorities have information who was behind the rallies and marches on Kempir-Abad issue.
Mass arrests began on October 23. Authorities placed 26 people in jail on charges of preparing for riots.
A number of international human rights organizations such as the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), Freedom Now and others issued a statement calling for the immediate release of politicians and activists arrested in Kyrgyzstan.
