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The daughter of the Uzbek president, Gulnara Karimova, has accused the chief of the country's National Security Service of blocking her path to the presidency.
Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of authoritarian Uzbek President Islam Karimov, has accused the chief of the National Security Service of aspirations to lead the country.
A UN review of measures adopted by Uzbekistan to prevent and punish acts of torture was interrupted by an angry outburst, with the head of the Uzbek delegation yelling and banging his fists on the table.
It is the 10th death to have occurred at mandatory cotton-picking sites in Uzbekistan in the last several weeks from a variety of causes, including suicide, electrocution, and a previous fatal stabbing.
Reports from Uzbekistan say that the bank accounts of the Terra Group, a media holding company associated with the president's daughter, Gulnara Karimova, have been frozen.
A student has died in Uzbekistan's northwestern province of Khorezm during mandatory cotton picking.
Several television channels controlled by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, have stopped broadcasting.
A father of four has committed suicide after being forced to pick cotton then humiliated publicly for underperforming in the western region of Karakalpakistan.
Uzbekistan has signed contracts worth $1 billion to sell cotton from its 2013 harvest.
Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, appears to have confirmed reports the president's nephew has been arrested.
A popular Uzbek singer, Jasur Umerov, has been stripped of his performing license after he failed to take part in mandatory cotton harvesting.
Russian rights defenders have stopped the deportation of an Uzbek family at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
A couple believed to have terrorized the Uzbek capital for the past year has been charged with manslaughter and robbery.
A 6-year-old boy has died during cotton picking in Uzbekistan's southwestern province of Bukhara.
A student at a teacher-training university in southern Uzbekistan has been accused of stabbing four fellow students, killing one and injuring the other three.
An Uzbek court has sentenced a 75-year-old Uzbek human rights activist to five years in prison.
Uzbek opposition activist Fakhriddin Tillaev and his wife were beaten by a mob following what the activist said was a staged rape accusation.
A court in Uzbekistan's southern city of Qarshi has imposed a 5 1/2-year prison sentence on the father of prominent opposition activist Bahodir Choriev.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on May 11 in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan Province that killed six people and injured more than 60.
The nephew of Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov has been killed in a car crash in Tashkent.
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