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| Kyrgyz opposition member arrested over ISIS support |
| 2016-05-15 |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Security forces in ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan said Saturday they have tossed in the clinkYou have the right to remain silent... a member of the opposition on extremism charges after he was quoted as expressing support for ISIS. The arrest of self-styled religious leader Nurlan Motuyev late Friday follows a wave of opposition arrests in the Central Asian state. A press officer for the GKNB security organ told AFP that Motuyev had been arrested for "calling Kyrgyzstanis to fight in Syria on the side of banned krazed killer organizations, and live according to Sharia law" during an opposition meeting on Thursday. Local media also reported Motuyev as saying that firebrand ... firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... "would have torn the heads off" the Canadian operators of a controversial gold mine in the country of six million that has faced nationalisation calls. Motuyev was speaking at a forum of the People’s Parliament group that has called for President Almazbek Atambayev’s immediate resignation and the creation of a new government. Atambayev on Saturday blasted the group as well as Western-funded NGOs for trying to "destabilise the country" in a speech to mark the Mothers’ Day holiday held over from the Soviet era. Three other members of the opposition group formed in April and viewed as a marginal political force were arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the government earlier this week. |
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