TOL Features: No Surrender
January 23rd, 2008 by kristy
On December 16, Krygyzstan held parliamentary elections. Two days later, Mirsulzhan Namazaliev, a blogger for neweurasia, was arrested and eventually jailed for protesting the election results.
Along with other youth, Namazaliev mounted the “I don’t believe” campaign, arguing against the government’s acceptance of election results that were deemed flawed by the OSCE and various pro-democracy groups in Kyrgyzstan. He stood outside the Central Election Commission building holding a sign in protest, and police soon detained him and several other youth. They spent three days in jail.
In his new TOL article, Namazaliev says his experience in jail gave him new strength to work for freedom and democracy. He and other Kyrgyz youth have plans to push forward — and never to surrender.
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