Another criminal case has been opened against the former deputy head of UTRK (National Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic), and now blogger Adyl Akzhol uulu, the Department of Internal Affairs of Osh region reported.
He was detained in early August and placed in a pretrial detention center until October 4. He is charged with calls for active disobedience to the legal demands of government officials and mass riots, as well as violence against citizens.
The police reported that an entrepreneur filed a statement with the Department of the State Committee for National Security for Osh city and Osh region on July 22. He stated that Adyl Akzhol uulu extorted a large sum from him for deleting a video related to his company from the blogger’s YouTube channel. The Department of Internal Affairs of Uzgen district and the State Committee for National Security began pre-trial proceedings. Based on the results of several examinations, law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under the article «Extortion» of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic.
