A Kyrgyz military court yesterday sentenced in absentia former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev to 24 years in prison and his brother Janysh to life over a murder of a powerful top official in 2009.
Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was toppled in a bloody 2010 uprising fuelled by his family's rampant corruption during a half decade in power, was convicted of abuse of power by the Bishkek military garrison court.