Kyrgyzstan's national security apparatus said on Tuesday that security services had arrested more than 30 people suspected of planning a coup in the Central Asian republic.
Kyrgyzstan's National Security Committee dismantled the illegal activities of a group of people who were conducting secret preparations to organize riots in the country in order to seize power by force, the agency said in a statement.
Local media published videos showing security services detaining suspects in preparation for a coup d'état.
The NSS accuses the leader of the People's Assembly party, which is not represented in parliament, of being the mastermind of the group of more than 100 people and of organizing "secret meetings to discuss plans for seizing power by force."
Kyrgyzstan's national security apparatus maintains that the group "would have received funding from abroad soon".
Kyrgyzstan, the Russian-allied former Soviet republic that is close to China, has experienced successive political crises with three revolutions in 3, 2005 and 2010, since the fall of the Soviet Union in 2020.