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Uzbekistan: President's daughter sues French publication

Written byAdil Nurmakov
Posted 17 April 2011 4:54 GMT

Joshua Foust opines on the news that the daughter of Uzbekistan’s authoritarian ruler Islam Karimov filed suit against the French website Rue89.com over an article that identified her father as a dictator and characterized her charity work as an attempt to whitewash the Uzbek repressive regime.

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