Uzbek students who refuse to work in cotton fields during the harvest season in Uzbekistan are being expelled from high schools and universities, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
An Uzbek rights activist says some 60 practicing Muslims are being detained in southern Uzbek prison on religious extremism charges, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Uzbek officials have released five of 30 women who were arrested on November 5 on religious extremism charges in southern Uzbekistan, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
A former Kyrgyz government official says U.S. President Barack Obama's Afghan strategy is very important for the stability of Central Asia, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
The Uzbek government's scholarship foundation is demanding repayments from parents whose children stayed abroad after attending foreign universities on state scholarships, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Uzbek government continues its repressive policies and is still detaining many rights activists despite the recent release of political prisoner Sanjar Umarov, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
A member of a pro-presidential political party in Uzbekistan has harshly criticized the party chairman and the election process after she was not allowed to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Uzbekistan says it is withdrawing from a regional power grid that unites it with three neighboring countries. Tashkent says the "outdated and unreliable" Soviet-era system is creating conflicts among the member states and that it imperils electricity supplies to Uzbekistan’s domestic consumers. But the move could leave Uzbekistan’s impoverished neighbors, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, facing severe electricity shortages in winter.
The Tajik Foreign Ministry says Uzbekistan's decision to quit the Central Asian power grid is politically motivated, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
Uzbekistan said today it had closed the border with Central Asian neighbor Kazakhstan as part of a seasonal antiflu quarantine.
Ruslan Sharipov, a U.S.-based Uzbek dissident and the only openly gay Uzbek journalist, says he is “disappointed with American democracy” and wants to return home.
An Uzbek car industry official says car exports to Russia are continuing normally despite Russian carmakers’ attempts to restrict them, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
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