Crossroads Asia | Politics | Central Asia
That Tashievwas given probation after a coup plot conviction while Kyrgyz journalists and musicians sit in jail, or exile, for reporting on his family’s corruption says everything that needs to be said about the character of justice and politics in Kyrgyzstan.
The day after Kamchybek Tashiev’s trial ended with a guilty verdict, the former former head of the State Committee for National Security was spotted heading for the VIP section of Kurmanbek Stadium in Manas (formerly Jalal-Abad) to attend a Kyrgyz Premier League match between Muras United and Asiagol.
On July 2, a judge in Bishkek delivered a verdict in the so-called “Letter of 75” case.
Tashiev, alongside former Speaker of the Zhogorku Kenesh Nurlanbek Turgunbek uulu, former Member of Parliament Kurmankul Zulushev, and five others, were found guilty of a coup attempt under Article 326 (“Violent seizure or retention of power, as well as an attempt to violently change the constitutional order”) and acquitted of abuse of office charges.
