Kyrgyzstan’s former President Almazbek Atambayev has been charged with murder and plotting a government coup.
He has also been accused of organising mass unrest and hostage-taking.
Mr Atambayev was arrested last week in a dramatic police raid on his house that left one officer dead.
The Central Asian state has seen two revolutions in less than two decades and is caught in an escalating conflict between the ex-president and his successor Sooronbai Jeenbekov. Read more