Uzbek activists given amnesties
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have granted amnesties to two prominent rights activists in what could be part of government efforts to mend frosty ties with the West.
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LONDON: Britain&#39;s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, pulled out of Tashkent for &quot;operational reasons,&quot; said yesterday he was a &quot;victim of conscience&quot; for having dared to speak out against human rights outrages.
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Uzbekistan voted on Sunday in a election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate &quot;revolutions&quot; such as those in Ukraine and Georgia.
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Uzbeks voted in a parliamentary election Sunday in which opposition groups were barred from running, sparking criticism from Europe's top election watchdog and a fierce defense from the country's authoritarian president, who insisted Uzbekistan has no "real" opposition.
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The British ambassador to Uzbekistan could be facing the sack for his outspoken criticism of the regime in Tashkent which he accuses of widespread torture of opponents.
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It's been nearly 13 years since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, and many Russians still are getting used to the freedoms which have followed.
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KABUL -- While trolling the Internet last October, Afghan journalism student Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh came across some articles that questioned the limits of women's rights under Islam. According to Afghan prosecutors, he downloaded the articles and circulated them on campus.
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It's 5 a.m. in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Most people are sleeping or rubbing their eyes as they get ready for work. Ric Glaub and his friends, however, have their game faces on.
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Uzbeks voted on Sunday in an election widely expected to extend President Islam Karimov's 18-year rule and condemned by the opposition and human rights activists as a Soviet-style one-man contest.
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The sliding doors of the battered Soviet railroad car that Artak Akopian calls home reveal a small space almost as icy as the outdoors. The makeshift quarters are decorated by little but an old photograph of his mother, who was killed in the earthquake that devastated Armenia in December 1988.
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While Ukrainians are heading to the polls, citizens of the fellow ex-Soviet republic of Uzbekistan are also voting, in this case for parliament.
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President Islam Karimov, the authoritarian and repressive leader of Uzbekistan, was seeking to extend his rule in a tightly controlled election that featured three other candidates Â all of whom publicly supported his policies.
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An international group of intellectuals urged the president of Uzbekistan on Thursday to release three women jailed for their human rights advocacy amid a sweeping crackdown on government critics.
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I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled "Dealing with the past in ex-Yugoslavia." Although the rest of post-communist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the ...
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An exhibition showing Russian women convicted of murder engenders shock and sympathy.
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MOKRA GORA, Serbia and Montenegro  - The Sargan  Eight train twists gently through the remote green mountain  ridges of deepest Serbia, triggering flashbacks from the fabled  days of Tito's partisan guerrillas.
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Uzbekistan's president threatened on Friday to crack down on Western aid groups whom he accuses of engaging in opposition-oriented political activities in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet country.