Kadyrzhan Batyrov

Kadyrzhan Batyrov (; ; 9 March 1956 – 4 December 2018) was a Kyrgyz businessman and politician. He was also head of the University of People's Friendship and a parliamentary deputy. 

He fled from Kyrgyzstan to Ukraine in 2010. Batyrov received a life sentence for his alleged role in ethnic conflicts in southern Kyrgyzstan in summer 2010.Batyrov applied for political asylum in Ukraine in September 2011. Although Ukrainian prosecutors initially agreed to extradite him to Kyrgyzstan, they later withdrew this decision. With the help of the UNHCR, he eventually received asylum in Sweden. 

Batyrov died in his sleeping in Odesa, Ukraine on 4 December 2018 at the age of 62.

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