Uzbekistan ruled by 'brutality and viciousness': ex-British ambassador
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Britain's suspended ambassador to Uzbekistan described human rights abuse in the Central Asian state as &quot;brutal&quot;, and argued that his outspoken criticism of it had embarrassed London and cost him his job, in an interview published.
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The UK's ambassador to Iraq says "things could have been done differently" after Saddam Hussein was toppled last year.
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Islam Karimov is sworn in for a seven-year term as President of Uzbekistan, following elections in December
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Controversial former ambassador Craig Murray speaks out after being recalled from his posting in Uzbekistan.
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Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's only president since independence from Soviet rule, was heading for victory on Monday following a weekend presidential election criticized as undemocratic by Western observers.
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Britain's ambassador to Uzbekistan, who  has condemned his superiors for accepting security information  gathered by torture, may be about to lose his job, British  media reported Tuesday.
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Many nations are hells on earth for political and religious prisoners. Among them: Iran, North Korea, Cuba and one of the very worst Uzbekistan under the ferocious rule of Islam Karimov.
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Uzbekistan on Monday blocked a U.N. resolution backed by the United States and Western nations criticizing its human rights violations, including the harassment, beatings and arrests of journalists and civil activists.
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26 December 2004 -- Uzbek President Islam Karimov has lashed out at Europe&#39;s top election watchdog for criticizing today&#39;s parliamentary vote.
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TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN -- Uzbeks voted in a parliamentary election yesterday in which opposition groups were barred from running, provoking criticism from Europe&#39;s top election watchdog and a fierce defence from authoritarian President Islam Karimov, who
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BRUSSELS, Feb 20 (IPS) - With the attention of the world's media rarely  turned towards Central Asia, it is easy to forget about the  Andijan massacre of May 2005. Several hundred demonstrators died  when Uzbek government forces opened fire on a demonstration, in  what is believed to be the worst mass killing since the 1989  Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
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There are many question marks about what the former British prime minister can achieve as special envoy.
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The departing envoy had argued for giving locals more responsibility. Critics are pressing for a tougher approach.
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Uzbekistan&#39;s parliamentary elections have fallen significantly short of international standards, according to Europe&#39;s main human rights body.
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Pakistan summoned the British ambassador to the foreign ministry on Tuesday, officials from both sides said, amid mounting anger at the award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.
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Britain's controversial envoy to Uzbekistan has been withdrawn after accusing London of using information obtained under torture in the former Soviet republic, a foreign office official told AFP.
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Britain joined the United States&#39; invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would &quot;nuke the shit&quot; out of Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington reportedly told a television documentary to be screened Saturday.