In Bishkek, NGO and LGBT opponents disrupt a rally against violence against women

In Bishkek, about 200 participants in a rally against NGOs and LGBT people thwarted another protest rally against violence against women, the Mediazona correspondent reports.

According to the journalist, participants in the anti-violence rally were gathering outside the Interior Ministry building when a crowd of aggressive men approached them.

Opponents of NGOs and LGBT people pushed back the protesters against the violence. At the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, protesters demanded that the president tighten the law on NGOs, and also called feminists and LGBT representatives "Satanists."

On April 15, a second rally against violence against women was planned in Bishkek. The first protest action took place on April 8 over the death of the abducted Aizada Kanatbekova, whom the police had been looking for for more than two days.

More than 500 protesters demanded the resignation of the Minister of Internal Affairs Ulan Niyazbekov and the head of the Bishkek Municipal Department of Internal Affairs Bakyt Matmusaev. Three days later, the Ministry of Internal Affairs dismissed Matmusaev and 11 officers of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Bishkek and Chui Oblast.

Aizada Kanatbekova was kidnapped for a forced marriage on April 5 in Bishkek. The abduction and the license plate of the car were filmed by a surveillance camera. However, the police searched for the girl for more than two days.

The girl was found dead outside the city in the Chui region on April 7. A local shepherd noticed a car with bodies inside and called the police. The car also contained the body of a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of the girl. According to the security officials, a skirmish took place between the suspect and the victim, and the man strangled the girl, and then he stabbed himself to death. Within two days after the murder of the girl, the police detained four suspects in her abduction.

Source: Mediazona

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