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Reports from Uzbekistan say that the bank accounts of the Terra Group, a media holding company associated with the president's daughter, Gulnara Karimova, have been frozen.
A student has died in Uzbekistan's northwestern province of Khorezm during mandatory cotton picking.
Several television channels controlled by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, have stopped broadcasting.
A father of four has committed suicide after being forced to pick cotton then humiliated publicly for underperforming in the western region of Karakalpakistan.
Uzbekistan has signed contracts worth $1 billion to sell cotton from its 2013 harvest.
Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, appears to have confirmed reports the president's nephew has been arrested.
A popular Uzbek singer, Jasur Umerov, has been stripped of his performing license after he failed to take part in mandatory cotton harvesting.
Russian rights defenders have stopped the deportation of an Uzbek family at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
A couple believed to have terrorized the Uzbek capital for the past year has been charged with manslaughter and robbery.
A 6-year-old boy has died during cotton picking in Uzbekistan's southwestern province of Bukhara.
A student at a teacher-training university in southern Uzbekistan has been accused of stabbing four fellow students, killing one and injuring the other three.
An Uzbek court has sentenced a 75-year-old Uzbek human rights activist to five years in prison.
Uzbek opposition activist Fakhriddin Tillaev and his wife were beaten by a mob following what the activist said was a staged rape accusation.
A court in Uzbekistan's southern city of Qarshi has imposed a 5 1/2-year prison sentence on the father of prominent opposition activist Bahodir Choriev.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on May 11 in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan Province that killed six people and injured more than 60.
The nephew of Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov has been killed in a car crash in Tashkent.
Mamadali Mahmudov, a renowned Uzbek writer once seen as a potential rival to the country's entrenched president, has been released after spending 14 years in penal custody.
The editor in chief of the Uzbek language "Ush sadosi" (Voice of Osh) newspaper in southern Kyrgyzstan has been placed under house arrest in connection with the case of a missing person.
The eldest daughter of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov has attacked the country's deputy prime minister and finance minister on Twitter again.
At least 20 residents of the town of Shark in Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh region have protested the arrest of a local journalist.
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