Uzbeks
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 ...
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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 ...
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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....
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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 n...
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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 charge...
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A prominent Uzbek human rights activist has been sentenced to six years and three months in jail as part of a crackdown on dissidents and government critics in the former Soviet republic, a colleag...
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Less than two years after they fled Uzbekistan in the wake of the government's bloody crackdown on protests in an eastern city, scores of Uzbeks have returned home _ to an uncertain welcome from an...
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An Uzbek doctor and rights advocate who claimed to have seen hundreds of bodies in the bloody crackdown of the 2005 Andijan uprising has been arrested for allegedly possessing banned literature, re...
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An appeals court Tuesday gave a suspended sentence to a well-known human rights defender after she read out a damning confession that also impugned the U.S. group she worked for.Umida Niyazova, a t...
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TASHKENT, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Uzbek leader Islam Karimov
registered his candidacy on Monday ahead of next month's
presidential election despite a constitutional ban on more than
two consecutive ter...
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A court convicted a human rights activist of distributing Islamic extremist propaganda Tuesday and sentenced her to seven years in prison, her lawyer said.The verdict came as authorities in Uzbekis...
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Uzbeks
Russia extradites Uzbek man
