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Constantly hounded

Wave of cases of persecution of independent journalists in recent weeks

Published on 4 April 2012Read

Intimidation

Charges dropped against freelance journalist Elena Bondar

Published on 8 September 2011Read

“Dictator’s daughter” loses libel suit against French news website

Reporters Without Borders hails today’s decision by a Paris court to reject the libel suit that Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s daughter, Lola (...)

Published on 1 July 2011 Read

Former state TV journalists start hunger strike after being convicted over protest

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the arrests of journalists Saodat Omonova and Malohat Eshonkulova five minutes after they began (...)

Published on 27 June 2011 Read

Rights and freedoms left off agenda of President Karimov’s visit to Brussels

Reporters Without Borders is concerned that President Islam Karimov is to be received in Brussels on 24 January for the first time since the (...)

Published on 20 January 2011 Read

two journalists sacked and harassed for TV censorship protest

Two journalists working for public television Yoshlar, Saodat Omonova and Malohat Eshankulova, were dismissed on 9 December, three days after (...)

Published on 23 December 2010 Read

Appeal court confirms heavy fine for Voice of America correspondent

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its support for one of Uzbekistan’s few remaining independent reporters, Abdulmalik Boboyev, following an (...)

Published on 16 November 2010 Read

Court imposes heavy fine on independent reporter

Abdulmalik Boboyev, one of Uzbekistan’s few remaining independent reporters, was fined 10,000 dollars by a Tashkent court today on charges of (...)

Published on 15 October 2010 Read

Independent reporter facing up to eight years in prison, banned from going abroad

Voice of America correspondent Abdulmalik Boboyev (picture, Ferghana.ru), one of Uzbekistan’s few independent journalists, is facing between five (...)

Published on 17 September 2010 Read

Radio host gets six years in prison

Reporters Without Borders condemns the six-year jail sentence that a court in Tashkent passed today on Khayrullo Khamidov, a popular radio host, (...)

Published on 28 May 2010 Read

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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