BISHKEK. Aug 10 (Interfax) - A military court in the Bishkek garrison has released former Kyrgyz Defense Minister Baktybek Kalyev, charged with the mass killing of demonstrators on April 7, 2010, to house arrest due to health issues, the Kyrgyz Supreme Court told Interfax on Tuesday.
The court thus granted a petition from Kalyev's lawyer to release him due to aggravation of diabetes, hypertension and other diseases.
A similar petition was also filed earlier by 61 parliamentarians.
Kalyev was arrested in the Jalal-Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan and brought to Bishkek in April 2010 after second President Kyrmanbek Bakiyev fled the country.
The ex-defense minister is being charged with "killing two and more people."