OSH. May 30 (Interfax) - The city court of Osh, South Kyrgyzstan, has started the trial of six suspected terrorists, Interfax was told at Advocacy Human Rights Center on Monday.
Five of the defendants are Kyrgyz nationals and one is a citizen of neighboring Uzbekistan.
The investigation says that the six belonged to a group that planned a series of terrorist acts in Bishkek and Osh several members of which were eliminated in a special operation in Osh on November 29, 2010. Other group members were detained in mid-November in Osh and big quantities of arms and explosives were confiscated from them.
The human rights center said that charges of terrorism, concealment of crime and complicity in a crime were brought against the defendants.
A spokesman for the center added that the trial is not taking place in the building of the court but in an army unit in conditions of tightened security.