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| 19.11.200907:59 (GMT) | Russian human rights activist, member of Memorial centre, Bakhrom Khamroyev, was detained in the south of Kyrgystan. According to local human rights activists, he was detained yesterday night in the city of Osh by agents of the State National Security Service, news agency Interfax reports. Local activist Izzatilla Rakhmatilayev was detained together with Khamroyev, news agency adds.
According to leader of human rights activist union Kalym Shamy, Aziz Abdrasulova, the two activists were detained by agents of security services in local office of radio Azattyk, a branch of the US-Congress funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Members of the Memorial told the press that the citizen of Russia Bakhrom Khamroyev arrived in the south of Kyrgyzstan from Kazakhstan’s city of Almaty on November 10 for gathering data on victims of religious prosecutions in Kyrgyzstan.
Khamroyev is kept in the building of Osh directorate of the the State National Security Service. As it became known, Khamroyev repeatedly received requirements from employees of security services to leave the region. The State National Security Service press centre told news agency Interfax that they did not have data on detention of the Russian human rights activist.
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