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Uzbekistan: President's Nephew in Mental Hospital

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Uzbekistan, Freedom of Speech, Media & Journalism

Tolkun Umaraliev reports on the case of Jamshid Karimov [1], an independent journalist often critical of the government who also happens to be a nephew of the Uzbekistan's authoritarian president. In a throwback to Soviet practice, Karimov has been placed in a psychiatric hospital in Samarkand.