BISHKEK -- A Turkish man charged with beating a female colleague in Bishkek has been ordered held in detention for two months, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
Bishkek's Birinchi Mai district court sanctioned the detention for Turkish national Yilmaz Gunes on April 22.
Gunes, an employee of the Beta-Stores-3 supermarket in Bishkek, was arrested on April 16 after his colleague Cholpon Orozbaeva was hospitalized because she had been severely beaten.
Orozbaeva told RFE/RL that Gunes attacked her after they argued over a business-related issue.
Gunes denies any wrongdoing. His lawyer, Nurshat Kasymov, told RFE/RL that it is not clear why the court has not called for medical and forensic tests or yet examined video footage from security cameras in the store.
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Bishkek's Birinchi Mai district court sanctioned the detention for Turkish national Yilmaz Gunes on April 22.
Gunes, an employee of the Beta-Stores-3 supermarket in Bishkek, was arrested on April 16 after his colleague Cholpon Orozbaeva was hospitalized because she had been severely beaten.
Orozbaeva told RFE/RL that Gunes attacked her after they argued over a business-related issue.
Gunes denies any wrongdoing. His lawyer, Nurshat Kasymov, told RFE/RL that it is not clear why the court has not called for medical and forensic tests or yet examined video footage from security cameras in the store.
Read more in Russian here
