Thirty-two people continued holding protest hunger strikes in Kyrgyzstan on 15 October demanding to release former vice president of the country Feliks Kulov. According to chairman of the Human Rights Movement of Kyrgyzstan Tursunbek Akunov, eight of them keep hunger strikes in capital Bishkek, ten in the Alamedin district of the neighboring Chui Province, five in the Bazar-Korgon district of the southern Jalal-Abad Province, five in Jalal-Abad town, and four people in Osh City, center of the southern Osh Province. Hunger strikes began in Bishkek on 8 October, before the Bishkek City Court upheld the convicting ruling against Kulov.