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Otabek Umarov, who is married to the Uzbek president's younger daughter, gets control over the rapidly burgeoning combat sport's new federation. He already has a senior role in the president's security detail and heads another Uzbek sports federation.
The chairwoman of the Paris-based Association of Human Rights for Central Asia says the death in "a traffic accident" of a well-known independent journalist in Uzbekistan "must be thoroughly investigated to assuage all doubts."
Uzbekistan's state-run news agency made the birthday of President Shavkat Mirziyoev's daughter its top news story all day on November 4.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has signed a decree allowing citizens to take up to $10,600 in cash with them when travelling abroad, another step in the liberalization of the foreign-currency market in the Central Asian state.
A court in Uzbekistan’s western region of Khorezm has handed a 27-month suspended prison sentence to poet and blogger Mahmud Rajab smuggling and organizing mass disorder.
As part of Uzbekistan's unofficial campaign against the Islamic hijab, teachers are waiting outside school gates to demand students remove their head scarves.
Two police officers in the town of Balashikha near Moscow have been dismissed and face unspecified charges for "torturing" and forcing two Uzbek men to jump from a second-floor apartment.
An Uzbek regional governor has been given three months' probation by the Senate after rudely lambasting Muslim women's head scarves and the long, bushy beards many men wear, saying they promote Islamic extremism.
An Uzbek governor is facing a backlash after he used nasty, threatening language in linking the wearing of popular clothing and long beards to Islamic extremist groups.
Vendors at a marketplace in Uzbekistan's eastern city of Namangan say authorities have been forcing traders and market visitors to shave their beards.
A court in Tashkent has reversed the conviction of a well-known scholar, orientalist Andrei Kubatin, who was imprisoned for high treason.
The recent killing of a gay man in Tashkent has put a spotlight on the plight of sexual minorities in Uzbekistan as they demand protection from the authorities.
Police in the Uzbek capital Tashkent say they have detained two men in connection with the brutal murder of a young gay man in the country where homosexuality is officially considered a crime.
Official in Uzbekistan are investigating an archaeological blunder that led to the destruction of ancient artifacts after firefighters were sent to excavate pots from a historic site.
Four workers have been killed and two injured after a metal building skeleton collapsed at a construction site in Tashkent.
City police in Tashkent are rejecting claims that dozens of men with beards were detained and forced to shave because they were practicing Muslims, saying the men were held during a raid to find suspects selling stolen mobile phones.
Uzbek security officials have come under fire after allegedly detaining dozens of males at a local market in Tashkent and shaving their beards before releasing them.
In a video statement, Uzbek activist Shokhruh Salimov called on the country's president to address the persecution of LGBT minorities. Two days later, police raided Salimov's family's house to try to arrest him.
Several former top officials of Uzbekistan's Labor Migration Agency have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on corruption charges.
Uzbekistan announced it will no longer restrict citizens from purchasing foreign currencies and will end a cap on the som's daily fluctuations, removing the last roadblocks to a fully floating currency.
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