Former Kyrgyzstan president Almazbek Atambayev (L) and former Chief of Staff Farid Niyazov (R) attend a court hearing on the events in the village of Koy-Tash in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 23 December 2020. Special forces of the State Committee for National Security tried to detain the Atambayev on 07 August 2019 in the village of Koy-Tash in order to bring him for interrogation to the Prosecutor General's Office. Almazbek Atambayev is charged with an article on organizing mass riots, the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan said.
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