Kyrgyzstan will deport 29 Uzbek asylum-seekers with criminal records, the country's top prosecutor said yesterday, in defiance of UN calls for the former Soviet republic to halt forced returns.
"Among the 29 there are terrorists and religious extremists. They have been convicted several times," Kyrgyz Prosecutor-General Azimbek Beknazarov said, adding that Kyrgyzstan was obligated under a treaty between ex-Soviet republics to extradite criminal suspects.
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