Kyrgyzstan's correctional service has proposed building a penal colony where only people convicted of extremist and terrorist offenses will be imprisoned, Interfax reported.

Such a measure "will lead to positive results in the crackdown on the spread of the ideas of religious extremism and terrorism in penal colonies and prisons," a spokesman of the State Penitentiary Institutions Service said Thursday.

Currently terrorists and extremists are being held in same prisons with prisoners convicted of other crimes, but in separate cells.

Seventy-nine people are currently serving their prison terms for extremism and terrorism in Kyrgyzstan, said the spokesman. Of them, 28 were convicted of terrorism. Endi

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