KYRGYZSTAN
Radio Free Europe
By RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service
June 20, 2016
A Kyrgyz imam has been detained for questioning in southern Kyrgyzstan after being accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy.
The Jalal-Abad regional police department’s spokesman, Myktybek Turdubekov, told RFE/RL on June 20 that the 58-year-old imam was detained after a woman from the village of At-Basar filed a complaint alleging that her son had been regularly raped by the imam.
Authorities did not release the name of the imam and did not immediately file charges against him.
Turdubekov said the detained imam could face rape charges in the case.
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