Print this page
Thursday, 28 July 2005
NO ORDER RECEIVED TO EXTRADITE UZBEKS – KYRGYZ MINISTER
By empty (7/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s acting Justice Minister Erkin Mamyrov said his ministry has not received an official warrant from the Prosecutor General\'s Office to extradite 12 Uzbek citizens being held in Osh to Uzbekistan. \"I officially declare that no warrant of this kind has been received and no motor vehicles with Uzbek number plates, intended to transport the prisoners, have entered the territory of the Osh detention facility,\" Mamyrov told Interfax. Kyrgyz human rights organizations announced on Wednesday that the refugees might be extradited to Tashkent soon and that two vehicles with Uzbek number plates, intended to transport the prisoners, had arrived at the Osh detention facility.
Kyrgyzstan\'s acting Justice Minister Erkin Mamyrov said his ministry has not received an official warrant from the Prosecutor General\'s Office to extradite 12 Uzbek citizens being held in Osh to Uzbekistan. \"I officially declare that no warrant of this kind has been received and no motor vehicles with Uzbek number plates, intended to transport the prisoners, have entered the territory of the Osh detention facility,\" Mamyrov told Interfax. Kyrgyz human rights organizations announced on Wednesday that the refugees might be extradited to Tashkent soon and that two vehicles with Uzbek number plates, intended to transport the prisoners, had arrived at the Osh detention facility. (Interfax)