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Imams in Uzbekistan joined riot police for training drills to suppress civil unrest.
Senior officials in Uzbekistan's Interior Ministry have told RFE/RL that Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov has been hospitalized with "minor injuries" following a traffic accident.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has visited Uzbekistan for talks seen as an important step toward mending a tense and complicated bilateral relationship.
The suspected killer of a senior Uzbek police officer has reportedly committed suicide while in hospital.
A top police official in Uzbekistan has been found dead in his office with stab wounds on his body, reports say.
An animal trainer at an Uzbek circus claims that it was ultimately monkey business by the boss -- and not just an unfortunate escape -- that led to tigers eating his lovable little performing simian earlier this month.
The family of a 5-year-old girl who was murdered in Russia returned to Tajikistan this week for her funeral. The girl's parents were labor migrants working abroad, and the case has caused outrage among Tajiks.
Six Uzbek women were jailed after they tried to approach President Shavkat Mirziyoev to complain about problems they and their families have encountered with police and prosecutors.
A private Uzbek TV channel has issued an apology after viewers criticized it for failing to edit out "immoral" scenes from the latest film from U.S. comedian Amy Schumer.
Uzbek journalist Muhammad Bekjon has reunited with his family in the United States more than a year after being released by the Central Asian nation, where he had spent amost 18 years behind bars.
Two Uzbek policemen were arrested after RFE/RL obtained shocking video of them forcing a female detainee to strip naked.
A provincial court in Uzbekistan has convicted an Uzbek-born U.S. citizen of links to a militant group and calling for the overthrow of the government but imposed only a $67 fine for the offenses committed almost two decades ago.
Five former senior security officials in Uzbekistan's Bukhara region have been convicted of torture and abuse of office and sentenced to lengthy prison terms, a law enforcement official says.
Uzbek authorities have released a U.S. citizen who was detained on suspicion of joining a terrorist group and fighting alongside Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan.
A U.S. citizen who returned to visit relatives in Uzbekistan has been detained on suspicion of joining a terrorist group and fighting alongside Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan, authorities say.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has pardoned dozens of inmates on the eve of Eid al-Fitr -- a holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that will be celebrated later this week.
Large parts of western Uzbekistan and northern Turkmenistan are recovering from a severe salt storm that has damaged agriculture and livestock herds.
A storm that hit Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan on May 27 covered everything with a layer of salt and made local farmers worry about their crops and doctors worry about residents' health.
About 2,000 residents in the Uzbek city of Andijon are due to be relocated when their homes are demolished as part of an urban renewal program. Many are unhappy with the planned demolitions, but only made this known to private media.
A well-known Uzbek human rights advocate who worked with political prisoners and was a vocal critic of forced labor in the Central Asian nation has died.
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