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Uzbekistan: Requiem to Slain Journalist

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

Bboyd's post [1] in memoriam to Alisher Saipov, an Uzbek journalist brutally murdered in Osh (Kyrgyzstan), says that Saipov was a strong critic of Uzbek regime and published an independent newspaper in the Uzbek language, which was printed in Kyrgyzstan and smuggled over the border.