An thus ends a bizarre trial that serves to illustrate a distressing pattern of Kyrgyz authorities targeting media whose work focuses on government corruption. The five videos that formed the core of the state’s complaint were not produced by Kloop, but by a different outlet, Temirov Live. The witnesses who testified in the recent case, mostly Kloop employees, denied having witnessed any calls for mass unrest from the two accused cameramen or the accountants, and denied knowledge of any work for Temirov Live. Judging from Kyrgyz media reports of the trial’s proceedings, the state didn’t present any specific evidence that proved a connection between Kloop and the specific materials cited as the basis for the case. The two cameramen, Alexander Alexandrov and Zhoomart Duulatov, had earlier pled guilty, but on the final day of the trial retracted their confessions.