Kyrgyz court bans circulation of late warlord Said Buryatsky's propaganda materials
BISHKEK. March 26 (Interfax) - A Kyrgyz court has determined that the late warlord Said Buryatsky's propaganda materials are extremist, the National Security Committee told Interfax on Wednesday.
"As a measure to prevent and avert extremism and terrorism, the National Security Committee, jointly with the Prosecutor General's Office, have filed a lawsuit with the judicial authorities on finding Said Buryatsky's (A. Tikhomirov's) propaganda materials extremist," it said.
Bishkek's Pervomaisky District Court ruled that Said Buryatsky's propaganda materials are extremist and foment religious, racial, and ethnic hostilities, it said.
"Their publication, circulation, storage, transportation, and promulgation in the electronic, audio, audiovisual, printed, and paper form, including via the Internet, is banned on Kyrgyzstan's territory," it said.
Said Buryatsky was killed in Russia in March 2010. However, an extremist religious group called Zhaishul-Makhdi was set up in Kyrgyzstan the same year based on his propaganda materials. Some of the group's members are currently being tried for terrorism, abductions, and other crimes.
The Pervomaisky Court also found the religious group Akromia to be an extremist organization and banned its activities on Kyrgyz territory, the National Security Committee said.