Arstan “Alai” Abdyldayev, an eccentric businessman and politician who attained internet celebrity in Kyrgyzstan in 2011 with a series of bizarre and amusing prophesies, died last week in jail, where he was being held on blasphemy charges. He was 55. The State Penitentiary Service said in a statement that Abdyldayev hanged himself on January 5 in the canteen area of special medical and correctional institution No. 31 in the village of Moldovanovka, which lies close to Bishkek. Abdyldayev’s lawyer, Kaysyn Abakirov, has said the Kyrgyz state bears ultimate responsibility for the death. Abakirov w…