08/21/2001
BBG-IBB-VOA EDITORIAL NUMBER=0-09394
UZBEKISTAN REPRESSION CONTINUES
The regime of Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov continues to try to silence journalists and others who speak out against its authoritarian practices. One of these is Shukrat Babadjanov [shoog-raht bah-bahd-jah-nov], director of the independent television company A-L-C TV. A-L-C TV had reported on corruption and human rights abuses in Uzbekistan. But it was shut down by the Karimov regime in the fall of 1999, just before the parliamentary and presidential elections. Continue reading
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