2005

MAY 13, 2005 Posted: May 17, 2005 CNN, BBC, and NTV CENSORED Ferghana.ru, Lenta.ru, and Gazeta.ru CENSORED Didor Radio CENSORED

MAY 13, 2005 Posted: May 17, 2005 Shamil Baygin, Reuters Galima Bukharbayeva, Institute for War and Peace Reporting HARASSED Uzbek authorities detained and expelled journalists covering civil unrest in the northeastern city of Andijan.

Dear Mr. Ganiev: The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly dismayed by your ministry’s repeated and unfair denial of press accreditation to Marina Kozlova, Tashkent correspondent for United Press International (UPI).

APRIL 27, 2005 Posted: May 17, 2005 Marina Kozlova, United Press International LEGAL ACTION The Foreign Ministry denied press accreditation to Marina Kozlova, Tashkent correspondent for United Press International (UPI).

New York, April 26, 2005—Independent Uzbek journalist Ulugbek Haydarov remained hospitalized today after a severe weekend beating at the doorstep of his home by an assailant who shouted, “I will teach you how to write,” according to local and international press reports. Haydarov suffered a broken collarbone and multiple bruises in the assault reported at…

APRIL 23, 2005 Posted: May 3, 2005 Ulugbek Haydarov, freelance ATTACKED Haydarov was hospitalized after a severe beating at the doorstep of his home by an assailant who shouted, “I will teach you how to write,” according to local and international press reports.

APRIL 11, 2005 Posted: May 3, 2005 Sobirdjon Yakubov, Hurriyat LEGAL ACTION, IMPRISONED Yakubov, a reporter for the state-run weekly newspaper Hurriyat (Liberty), was criminally charged with “undermining the constitutional order” and faced up to 20 years in prison, according to local and international press reports.

New York, April 6, 2005—The prosecutor-general’s office in Uzbekistan said yesterday it was investigating the Tashkent bureau of the media training and advocacy group Internews Network on criminal charges of operating without a license, according to international reports. Witnesses have been questioned, “but at this stage nobody has been arrested,” the prosecutor’s spokeswoman, Svetlana Artikova…

When U.S.-led forces waged an offensive in Fallujah in November and a state of emergency was declared, the Iraqi interim government’s Higher Media Commission directed the media to “set aside space in your news coverage to make the position of the Iraqi government, which expresses the aspirations of most Iraqis, clear.” Those that didn’t comply…