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UZBEKISTAN: Government clampdown intensifies
31 May 2005 14:26:12 GMT
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/c7cdfde6d44819ba22464efb4e62fd8d.htm
ANKARA, 31 May (IRIN) - The Uzbek government has intensified a clampdown on
public dissent in Central Asia's most populous state, following protests in
the eastern province of Andijan, where upwards of 1,000 were feared dead.
"The authorities have increased pressure on rights groups and opposition
party members in Uzbekistan over the past few days," Surat Ikramov, head of
the local rights organisation, Initiative Group of Independent Rights
Activists of Uzbekistan (IGIRAU), told IRIN from the capital, Tashkent, on
Tuesday.
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