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Two Sentenced To Death In Kyrgyzstan

July 17, 2006

Bayaman Erkinbaev (RFE/RL)

Bayaman Erkinbaev (RFE/RL)

July 17, 2006 -- A regional court in Kyrgyzstan today sentenced two men to be shot for killing a member of parliament last year.


Makhmujan Ruzimetov and Sabyrkul Batyrov were found guilty of killing Bayaman Erkinbaev last September.


A spokesman for Kyrgyzstan's prosecutor general said the two men would be put on death row indefinitely as Kyrgyzstan has imposed a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.


(24.kg news agency, Reuters)

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