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Uzbekistan: A Dissident Poet Released

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Uzbekistan, Human Rights, Law

Noah Tucker writes [1] that the Uzbekistan authorities released Yusuf Juma, the poet and activist who was jailed for slander in 2008 after publishing a series of poems related to the 2005 Andijon protests.