The Uzbeks are a Central Asiatic people who speak a language belonging to the Chagatay branch of the Turkic language subfamily. In 1998, an estimated 18 million Uzbeks lived in the independent republic of Uzbekistan, located mainly between the Syr...

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This article is about Uzbeks as an ethnic group. For information about citizens of Uzbekistan, see Demographics of Uzbekistan. The Uzbeks (Self designation sg. O‘zbek, pl. O‘zbeklar) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. They...

Russian authorities deported an Uzbek man wanted on charges of religious extremism despite objections from the European human rights court that he may be subjected to torture in Uzbekistan, rights advocates said Thursday.Abdugani Kamaliyev was flown Wednesday from the central city of Tyumen to the...

Mark Weil, an Uzbek theater director whose productions caused controversy in the tightly controlled former Soviet republic, was stabbed to death outside his home, a theater spokeswoman said Friday. He was 55.Weil was attacked in front of his apartment building in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, late...

Authorities in Uzbekistan have granted amnesties to two prominent rights activists in what could be part of government efforts to mend frosty ties with the West.Saidjahon Zainabitdinov, who spent nearly three years in jail, said Tuesday by telephone from his home in the city of...

An Uzbek reporter for German broadcaster said Wednesday he faces up to 10 years in prison after being accused of defaming President Islam Karimov.Yuri Chernogayev said Uzbek prosecutors also charged him with tax evasion and "illegal dissemination of information threatening public security and order.""This is...