(Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English)
BISHKEK. Oct 4 (Interfax) - Kyrgyz police have detained a number of people suspected of organizing unrest in the Osh region on October 1.
"Law enforcement officers from the Osh region have detained seven organizers of mass unrest that took place during the celebration of the end of the holy month of Ramadan in the town of Nookat on October 1," the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry told Interfax on Saturday.
All the seven people are local residents, and two of them were earlier convicted for fomenting religious enmity, it said.
On October 1, about 100 people chanting religious slogans demanded to be allowed to gather on a square outside the building of the Nookat district administration to celebrate the end of Ramadan.
After being refused, they became aggressive, ignored police warnings and, crying Allah akbar', pelted the building with stones. A criminal case on mass unrest charges has been opened.
The Osh regional administration insisted that the Muslims who gathered in Nookat on October 1 were members of the banned extremist religious party Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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