Uzbekistan: Protest Over Award for Leader. Unesco has infuriated human rights organizations by awarding a medal to the widely criticized leader of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, left.

The death of Islam Karimov, the 78-year old party boss and dictatorial president of Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbekistan, a key strategic power in Central Asia, was announced September 2 in official ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned a parole-like sentence handed to an Uzbek woman in April over her sharing of a 1991 video showing the late President Islam Karimov speaking to Islamists. The ...

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — Every five to 10 minutes, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, a fresh group of Uzbek pilgrims troops into the tomb of their late president, the dictator Islam Karimov, to ...

Uzbek president Islam Karimov doesn’t take kindly to criticism. He’s branded opponents as Islamic extremists and imprisoned over 6,000 of them in a penal system where, according to the U.S. State ...

(Reuters) - Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who the government said on Friday had died aged 78 after suffering a stroke, saw himself as the protector of his Central Asian nation against the threat of ...

During Uzbekistan's 25 years of independence its first family, the Karimovs, were powerful and greatly feared by the local population. Those days are coming to an end now that President Islam Karimov ...

(Berlin) – A Tashkent regional appeals court on August 21, 2024, upheld a woman’s 30-month restricted freedom sentence for alleged anti-constitutional activity in gross violation of her right to ...

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MOSCOW (AP) — Uzbekistan’s government issued an unusual statement on Sunday announcing the hospitalization of President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the former Soviet republic in Central Asia for more ...

The Moscow-based son of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Pyotr Karimov, has filed a civil lawsuit against his stepmother and Uzbekistan's former first lady, Tatyana Karimova, over unspecified ...

Aides said Wednesday’s meeting was an effort to begin a new era of partnership with Uzbekistan, a country that is making its first fitful turns away from authoritarianism. By Julie Hirschfeld Davis ...