Almazbek Atambayev, president from 2011 to 2017, oversaw the republic’s first peaceful handover of power between elected presidents, but troubles mounted after he quickly fell out with his hand-picked successor.
Atambayev was first arrested in a chaotic raid of his residence in August 2019, then temporarily freed amid a 2020 revolution only to be re-arrested months later.
In a new case, a court found him guilty of illicit enrichment, illegally acquiring land and of participating in mass unrest in August 2019, when resistance to a special forces operation to arrest him left one person dead and many injured, Kyrgyz media reported Wednesday.
Kyrgyzstan’s current president Sadyr Japarov said Wednesday he would “consider granting amnesty” to Atambayev, if he requested it.
Japarov came to power as a result of the 2020 revolution.
But in recent years rights groups have criticised democratic backsliding, and an escalating crackdown on independent civil society and media outlets.
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