Left Bloc activist Lev Skoryakin was detained in Bishkek. According to the Black Book of Capitalism Telegram channel, Skoryakin is now in the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (GNKB).
Meanwhile, a GKNB official told The Insider correspondent in Bishkek that the GKNB did not detain Skoryakin. According to other sources, he is in the main department of search.
In February, a court in Moscow arrested Skoryakin in absentia for two months, putting him on the federal wanted list.
In December 2021, Skoryakin and another Left Bloc activist, communist Ruslan Abasov, walked out in front of the FSB building in Moscow with a banner “Happy ChKist Day” and flares. The activists were detained, and a criminal case was opened against them for hooliganism (Part 2, Article 213 of the Criminal Code). Abasov was also charged with an article on vandalism (part 1 of article 214 of the Criminal Code). They spent more than seven months in a pre-trial detention center, then they were released with a restriction in the form of a ban on certain actions. After that, both left the country.
Earlier, Russian anti-war activist Aleksey Rozhkov, who is accused of setting fire to the military enlistment office after the start of the war with Ukraine, was taken from Kyrgyzstan to Russia, accompanied by members of the Kyrgyz special services. Upon arrival in Russia, he was met by FSB officers who put a bag over his head and used a stun gun on him.
Gulshaiyr Abdirasulova, a spokeswoman for the Kylym Shamy human rights movement, told The Insider that several Russians were detained over the weekend, not just Rozhkov. All of them were wanted in the Russian Federation and were expelled to their homeland. The Supreme Court explained that the decision was made at the level of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic.
