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Michael Mcfeat
posted a comment on Facebook saying that his Kyrgyz colleagues
were queuing for their "special delicacy, the horse's penis" at
New Year celebrations, sparking a brief strike at the Kumtor
mine as well as calls for criminal prosecution.
The dish in question, chuchuk, is a sausage made from horse meat
and intestines.
Police detained Mcfeat on Sunday for questioning but the state
security service only gave him a warning despite workers
insisting that his actions constituted inciting hatred, a crime
punishable by three to five years in prison.
A local court found that Mcfeat, who worked as a welder for a
contractor at Kumtor, had no work permit and ruled that he must
be deported within 24 hours.
The mine is at the center of a dispute between the government
and Canada's Centerra Gold.
(Reporting by Olga Dzyubenko; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing
by Louise Ireland)
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