15:45, 18 декабря 2024, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Guliza CHUDUBAEVA
Director of the National Center for Prevention of Torture Bakytbek Kasymkulov today, December 18, persuaded the founder of the construction company KG Group Imamidin Tashov to stop his hunger strike. The national center reported.
Bakytbek Kasymkulov visited the pretrial detention center 1, where he met with the defendant Imamidin Tashov in the presence of the head of the medical sanitary unit of the detention center. Following the conversation, the head of the national center persuaded the businessman to stop his hunger strike and start eating and using other legal methods of expressing his position.
Imamidin Tashov wrote a statement in the presence of Bakytbek Kasymkulov about ending the hunger strike.
It was his second suicide attempt. On October 29, he was taken from a pretrial detention center to a hospital after a suicide attempt. On December 17, the businessman attempted to commit suicide again, cutting his belly with a piece of glass.
Imamidin Tashov has been charged with attempted violent seizure of power, public calls for the seizure of power, and illegal crossing of the state border.
He was detained in April in Kaindy village, Chui region. According to the State Committee for National Security, the businessman allegedly planned to organize a temporary headquarters in Kara-Balta to consolidate forces for a protest with a subsequent seizure of power. Being wanted, he carried out active recruitment work through social media, the state committee stated.
Before this, a video message from Imamidin Tashov was posted on social media, in which he said that he was «kidnapped like a bandit», held captive and demanded, in addition to the 52 million soms already transferred to the state, 100 more million.