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Modern Diplomacy
April 5, 2018
It is already common knowledge that,KIB is fighting in Syria as part of the al Qaeda-linked rebel coalition Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham. The KIB detachment was created in Afghanistan on the basis of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. KIB also operates in Afghanistan and has pledged loyalty to the Taliban, whoÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
April 4, 2018
In Uzbekistan over the past year, at least 27 jailed high-profile dissidents, some of them held in prison for nearly two decades, have been released and about 18,000 people who were judged disloyal by the SNB under Karimov have been removed from a blacklist that made it impossible for them to travel orÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
In Uzbekistan over the past year, at least 27 jailed high-profile dissidents, some of them held in prison for nearly two decades, have been released and about 18,000 people who were judged disloyal by the S.N.B. under Mr. Karimov have been removed from a blacklist that made it impossible for them toÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
Pope Francis, Uzbekistan, Denmark: Your Monday Briefing ... Signs of an assassin in Britain, a thaw in Uzbekistan and a rebel queen in Denmark. Here's ... Bucking a global trend toward authoritarianism, Uzbekistan's new leader is reining in the secret police, releasing political prisoners and allowing someÃâà...
RT
March 15, 2018
The colorful former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, turned anti-establishment dissident after he was sacked from the Foreign Office in 2004, has published on his blog some key texts by authoritative scientists which cast serious doubt on the British government's claims about what happened to the formerÃâà...
The Economist
March 15, 2018
Like his hero's fables, Hamid Ismailov, an exiled Uzbek dissident and journalist with the BBC World Service, turns this double plot into “a fairy story, adapted for ordinary men's minds”. Both strands—the purge of the 1930s, the imperial manoeuvres of a century before—draw on actual events and characters,Ãâà...
The Calvert Journal
March 13, 2018
Over 25 years after he was forced to leave Uzbekistan, Hamid Ismailov has just had his first Uzbek language novel, The Devils' Dance, published in .... Some dissident Uzbek writers have been released from prison by Mirziyoyev, but Ismailov says even if he was allowed to enter the country, his life inÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 9, 2018
In an unprecedented move in January 2018, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev removed the long-serving, and powerful head of the National Security ... in late September 2017 indicate that despite progressive rhetoric, the security forces continue to wrongfully detain journalist and political dissidents.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 8, 2018
It seemed obvious that Khudaiberdiev had come from, and escaped back to, Uzbekistan. On November 12, President Rahmon addressed Tajikistan's parliament, saying he had proof that Karimov had aided the rebels. "By organizing coups and helping rebels, the Uzbek leadership wants to take the wholeÃâà...
EurasiaNet
October 3, 2017
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in mid-September, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev outlined a democratic vision for his country. ... a sign of Uzbekistan's growing receptiveness to human rights norms is its removal of about 16,000 people, many of them political dissidents, from its security blacklistÃâà...
EurasiaNet
September 28, 2017
An exiled dissident author who returned to Uzbekistan this week only to be arrested on arrival is facing charges of promoting extremism in his writings. Authorities are basing their case on a book by Nurullo Otakhonov published in 2016, Bu Kunlar (“These Days”), which dwells on the shortcomings of life inÃâà...
EurasiaNet
September 27, 2017
An exiled writer returned to Uzbekistan on September 27 only to be slapped into handcuffs on arrival, raising fears that talk of a political thaw may have been premature. Nurullo Otakhonov's wife told Moscow-based news website ferghana.ru that she was informed by police that her husband was suspectedÃâà...
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