Provisional Kyrgyz authorities have decided to deprive President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of inviolability status. The corresponding document was signed by the head of interim government, created in the country, Rosa Otunbayeva. Also the decree instructs the country's Prosecutor General's Office to make a formal request on politician's extradition.
As stated in the document, which is to specify the bill to remove president Kurmanbek Bakiyev from office and deprive him of presidential immunity — adopted by provisional authorities of Kyrgyzstan on April 26 -, «Bakiev admitted shooting of civilians, and thus he deprived himself of the ex-president status and inviolability», Vesti.kz report.
Against the president of Kyrgyzstan, located in Minsk at the personal invitation of his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, and several senior officials of Bakiyev’s administration, there initiated a criminal case on charges of mass killings during the riots and economic crimes at home.
As Telegraf previously reported, arrived in the capital of Belarus Kurmanbek Bakiyev said that he did not resign from the post of the head of state and remained the legally elected president of Kyrgyzstan.
