Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Uzbekistan

Rights Group Says Uzbek State Journalists Sacked

Uzbek President Islam Karimov's government has stepped up its repression of journalists since Andijon (file photo) (AFP)

August 1, 2006 -- The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) media watchdog today reported that several journalists with Uzbekistan's "Pravda Vostoka" official newspaper have been fired for working with nongovernmental media outlets.

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August 01, 2006

RSF says in a statement that the newspaper's editor in chief, Alisher Uslanov, was summoned to the presidential administration last month and asked to dismiss a number of "politically unreliable" reporters, including two women (Jamilya Aipova and Olga Fazylova) who had reportedly contributed articles to the tribune-uz.info information website.

The Russian-language "Pravda Vostoka" is one of Uzbekistan's two official newspapers.

Tribune.uz.info announced its closure on July 4, suggesting the decision was made under government pressure.

(www.rsf.org, www.tribune-uz.info)

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