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A thriving Uzbek bakery says it's been put out of business by the president's "Prosperous Village" program. One of the owners sent RFE/RL a video showing their ovens rusting in a field, saying their previous premises were demolished. Previously, people have reported being forced to work for free for the program, which aims to build showcase villages.
A private Uzbek TV channel has taken a popular Turkish soap-opera off the air for the second time amid criticism that it is not compatible with Uzbek values.
RFE/RL has obtained video of farm workers in Uzbekistan's southern Kashkadarya Province allegedly being locked on a bus in temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius. The workers claim they were kept there after farmers missed a meeting on using too much water and fertilizer on their farms.
The son-in-law of the Uzbek president posted a video of his high-speed joyride through the capital, Tashkent. He also happens to be the deputy head of presidential security.
Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry says 69 Uzbek labor migrants, including a child, have been hospitalized with symptoms of food poisoning in Russia's Samara region.
The lawyer of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, says prison authorities have refused to grant him access to his client, “most likely” because they do not want him to see her health condition.
Uzbekistan's Supreme Court has rejected a request by former politician Samandar Qoqonov, who was released from prison in late 2016 after spending almost 24 years behind bars, to be exonerated of all charges against him.
Former Uzbek Prosecutor-General Rashidjon Qodirov has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on corruption charges.
For the first time in Uzbekistan's history, a woman has become the leader of the upper chamber of parliament -- the Senate.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has dismissed Prosecutor-General Otabek Murodov, who has been credited for starting a policy of openness toward the media since his appointment in January 2018.
Sources tell RFE/RL that thousands of Uzbeks are being forced to work for free as part of the president's "Prosperous Village" program. Local residents say they've been told their pensions and benefits will be cut if they don't do as they're told, but one local official denied that.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has ordered top public officials to live like average citizens, but giving up the perks of high office might be easier said than done.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has pardoned dozens of inmates on the eve of Eid al-Fitr -- the holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that will be celebrated after sunset on June 4.
Women "given" free townhouses during a visit to eastern Uzbekistan by President Shavkat Mirziyoev are angry at being told the next day to vacate their new homes
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev have discussed bilateral cooperation in the Uzbek capital on the second day of Steinmeier's three-day official visit to Central Asia's most populous country.
The head of Uzbekistan's Information and Mass Communication Agency has said that access to a dozen news and human rights websites has been restored in the authoritarian Central Asian country.
The eldest daughter of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has been appointed deputy head of the newly established presidential Press and Information Agency that oversees communications and media regulation, the agency said on April 12.
Uzbek women have said they have suffered domestic abuse after marriage agencies found them husbands in China.
A government official took a leave of absence and was placed under police protection after she received death threats over her online comment addressing polygamy and the Prophet Muhammad.
The March 5 order by a Tashkent court was the latest dramatic development for Karimova, who at one point had been seen as a possible heir to the presidency until she was brought down by a sprawling multinational corruption investigation.
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