BISHKEK, November 2 (RIA Novosti) - Rioting has continued in six penitentiaries and a pre-trial detention center in Kyrgyzstan, the head of the central penitentiary department said Wednesday.
Kapar Mukeyev said the inmates were on a hunger strike but that order had been maintained in other prisons. He added that no mass resistance had been encountered by police in the prisons since Tuesday. Police ordered prisoners to hand over all prohibited objects, such as guns, knives, and drugs, by Thursday morning.
Riots erupted Tuesday in at least seven high-security penitentiaries and detention centers in Kyrgyzstan when it became known that police were going to take criminal boss Aziz Batukayev away. Police stormed a prison facility to seize Batukayev, killing several inmates.
