| BISHKEK: About 50 protestors ended a sit-in in the compound of Kyrgyzstan's national security service on Tuesday amid continued tensions following president Askar Akayev's ouster, witnesses and officials said. The protestors left the compound they had occupied since early on Monday after the authorities agreed conditional release terms for two of four men whose freedom the protestors were demanding, acting Prosecutor General Azimbek Beknazarov said. The four were detained on Friday on suspicion of involvement in the radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir and on suspicion of illegal weapons possession, Beknazarov said. "Two of the detainees have been conditionally released... after we considered the difficult situation. If they violate their release terms they will immediately be re-arrested," Beknazarov told journalists. The two remaining detainees are in a "very severe" state of health possibly after being beaten in custody, Beknazarov added. |