Pressure by CPJ, other groups keeps Karimov out of Prague
February 13, 2014 3:23 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists this week joined a campaign spearheaded by Human Rights Watch and Uzbek human rights defenders urging Czech President Milos Zeman to cancel Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov's visit to Prague. Zeman had invited Karimov to visit...
Karimov should uphold media pledge by freeing journalists
June 27, 2013 4:23 PM ET
New York, June 27, 2013--Uzbek President Islam Karimov should follow through on his public commitment today to support his country's journalists by releasing the unjustly jailed reporter Salidzhon Abdurakhmanov immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. News accounts...
In Uzbekistan, speculation swirls as Karimov out of sight
March 26, 2013 6:12 PM ET
In the most tightly controlled countries, the media is told what they are allowed to report on and what topics are taboo. Anything related to the leader's health or his family is generally in the latter category. The resulting information...
What US can't accept in Belarus, it supports in Uzbekistan
January 11, 2012 2:15 PM ET
Last week, President Obama signed into law a bill that expands sanctions against Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko continues to imprison his opponents and critics. Lukashenko unleashed the latest crackdown hours after the flawed December 2010 presidential vote,...
EU has contradictory message on Karimov, Lukashenko
January 24, 2011 11:19 AM ET
Unless European Union officials mean to expose the inconsistency of their own policymaking, they should stand firm by their declared commitment to defend press freedom and human rights in the former Soviet countries. For now, their drastically different approaches...
Attacks on the Press 2009: Uzbekistan
February 16, 2010 12:08 AM ET
h7 {float:none;width:auto;height:auto;font-family:sans-serif;font-weight:normal; margins:5px;} Top Developments• Nation is a persistent jailer of journalists.• Security agents enforce rigid censorship. Key Statistic 4: Years EU human rights sanctions were in place before being lifted in 2009. President Islam Karimov’s authoritarian government held at...
Karimov chastises Uzbekistan’s 'toothless' reporters
February 2, 2010 4:36 PM ET
Addressing the joint session of Uzbekistan’s parliament on Wednesday, President Islam Karimov urged his lawmakers to be more active in their work, saying that laws should address public needs, and blaming the local press corps for being “toothless” in its...