Makhmudzhon Kholdarov has been detained in Ukraine and could be extradited to the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan where he would face a long prison sentence for his religious beliefs. Ukraine’s collaboration with the Kyrgyzstan authorities in this case would be especially incomprehensible as Kholdarov is accused of the same involvement in the peaceful pan-Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir movement as around 55 Ukrainian political prisoners arrested by the FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea.
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Kyrgyz law enforcement officers patrol in front of the entrance to the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) headquarters in Bishkek on August 16, 2019.
