Uzbek-born journalist and documentary filmmaker Shahida Yakub says she was prevented from entering Uzbekistan when she arrived in Tashkent for a private visit on April 3. Yakub, a British citizen, said passport control officials did not explain why they were refusing her entrance to Uzbekistan. Yakub, a former correspondent for the BBC and Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA, links the incident to her work as a journalist, including her coverage of Tashkent’s clampdown on anti-government protests in the city of Andijon in 2005. To read the original story from RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service, click here.
Former RFE/RL Journalist Says She Was Prevented From Entering Uzbekistan
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