Kyrgyzstan's National Security Committee dismantled the illegal activities of a group of people who were conducting secret preparations to organize riots. The NSS accuses the leader of the People's Assembly party of being the mastermind of the group of more than 100 people.
Local media published videos showing security services detaining suspects in preparation for a coup d'état. The Russian-allied former Soviet republic that is close to China has experienced successive political crises with three revolutions since the fall of the Soviet Union in 2020.