From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 10:14:44 EST
TWO KYRGYZ CITIZENS ABDUCTED BY UZBEK SECURITY
The Geneva-based World Organization against Torture appealed on 24
November to Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov to release
two Kyrgyz citizens abducted on Kyrgyz territory by Uzbek
security services on 4 October, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service
reported, citing the Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights. The
two men have been accused of theft and are reportedly being
systematically beaten. The Kyrgyz government has made no
move to secure the men's release. The father of one of
them, who appealed unsuccessfully to Kyrgyzstan's President
Askar Akaev to intervene, is said to be recruiting
volunteers to try to secure his son's release by force. LF
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