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Kyrgyzstan: MP Detained on Suspicion of Plotting Election-Related Unrest
September 30, 2017 - 3:32pm Inside the Cocoon. Election Kyrgyzstan.

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/85481

With just two weeks left to go until Kyrgyzstan’s presidential elections, the authorities have embarked on another highly politicized criminal case, accusing a well-known lawmaker of plotting to foment riots and topple the government.

The General Prosecutor’s Office announced in a statement on September 30 that it is filing criminal proceedings against Kanatbek Isayev, who has been formally detained, on charges that he planned to provoke violent unrest in the event of a political ally failing to win the October 15 election.

Isayev is identified in the statement as a supporter of one of the election frontrunners, Omurbek Babanov.

Prosecutors claim that Isayev entered into an agreement with “representatives of organized criminal groups” to “pursue active measures aimed at the organization of mass unrest.”

My comment: it's a different world out there in Central Asia. Politicians and thugs.