The Birinchi Mai district court in Bishkek postponed to an unspecified later date the trial of 27 Kyrgyz activists, politicians, and journalists who protested against a 2022 Kyrgyz-Uzbek border delimitation deal, after one of the defendants, Bektur Asanov, was hospitalized on January 10, lawyer Erkin Bulekbaev told RFE/RL. The activists, whose trial started in June last year, were arrested in October 2022 after they protested the controversial Kyrgyz-Uzbek border demarcation deal which saw Kyrgyzstan in November 2022 hand over the territory of the Kempir-Abad water reservoir to Uzbekistan. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service, click here.
Kyrgyz Border-Deal Activists' Trial Postponed After Defendant Hospitalized
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