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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 1, 2016
In December, a Swedish court found Yury Zhukovsky, 37, guilty of carrying out an attack on prominent Uzbek Imam Obidkhon Qori Nazarov in 2012. Nazarov, who is a critic of the government of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, was in a coma for two years after being shot at least three times in the northernÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 11, 2015
The intended victim was Obidkhon Qori Nazarov, once the popular imam at the Tokhtaboy Mosque in Tashkent and a critic of the government. Nazarov was seriously wounded in the attack. He suffered brain damage and was in a coma for months. The chief suspect in the shooting is Yury Zhukovsky,Ãâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 26, 2015
Petersson said the suspect had an Uzbek passport in his possession at the time that the imam, Obidkhon Qori Nazarov, was shot at least three times in the Swedish town of Stromsund in February 2012. The passport is still valid, Petersson added. Zhukovsky was handed over on August 25 to Sweden byÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 22, 2012
Obidkhon Qori Nazarov has been living in Sweden since he was granted political asylum in 2006. ... RFE/RL's Uzbek Service is reporting that Uzbekistan's prominent religious cleric Imam Obidkhon Qori Nazarov, who has survived an apparent assassination attempt in the Swedish town of Stromsund, hasÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 12, 2006
Imam Obidkhon Qori Nazarov (file photo) (RFE/RL) Rafiq Qori Kamoluddin, the prominent ethnic Uzbek religious leader who was killed during a security raid in southern Kyrgyzstan on August 6, is not the first imam to have been targeted by law-enforcement agencies in the region. Several other UzbekÃâà...
