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Switzerland's federal prosecutor has filed an indictment against the imprisoned daughter of Uzbekistan's former president, accusing her of taking bribes and running an elaborate criminal organization known as "The Office."
A powerful explosion struck a warehouse near the main airport in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, overnight, killing a 16-year-old youth, injuring at least 160, and causing extensive damage.
Uzbekistan's Health Ministry said on September 22 it has taken under "strict control" the hospitalization of more than 70 children with symptoms of being poisoned in the eastern region of Namangan earlier this week.
U.S. President Joe Biden emphasized the "territorial integrity" of five Central Asian nations -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- after meeting with the countries' leaders in New York late on September 19 amid the United Nations General Assembly
Prosecutors have asked a court in Tashkent to convict and sentence journalist Mavjuda Mirzaeva to six years in prison on charges of slander, insult, and extortion.
In the midst of a growing water crisis in Central Asia, Uzbek well diggers are forced to constantly go deeper to supply rural farmers. With water tables falling, diggers can no longer guarantee farmers they will find a reliable source of irrigation.
Uzbekistan's leading payment services Oson and Pay Way said they have suspended foreign money transfers as of September 5 amid warnings from the central bank over avoiding the violation of Western sanctions imposed against Russia for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoev appointed his 38-year-old daughter, Saida Mirziyoeva, as an assistant to the president, on August 25, the official Telegram channel of the Uzbek president said.
Uzbekistan's Supreme Court has exonerated 240 people convicted in the 1920-1930s by the Soviet regime for taking part in the Basmachi (Raiders) movement, which fiercely fought against Russian and Soviet forces.
Uzbek authorities detained a man on fraud charges for allegedly promising to arrange the emigration of another man to the United States.
A well-known Uzbek investigative journalist and blogger, Abdulqodir Mominov, says he was tortured by three law enforcement officials while in pretrial detention.
The Uzbek capital's Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the death of a 33-year-old man being detained at a Tashkent police station after his family said the body showed signs of torture.
Uzbek authorities have charged two popular bloggers with fraud, the Interior Ministry has announced.
A court in the Uzbek capital has opened the trial of 21 individuals over the deaths last year of 65 children blamed on an Indian-made cough syrup.
A popular religion-oriented Uzbek online media group Azon.uz has closed its website, stopped broadcasting online television and radio channel, and deleted all social-media pages without giving a reason.
An Uzbek court has sentenced three police officers in a case linked to mass anti-government protests in the country’s Karakalpak Autonomous Republic last year.
The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan said on August 3 that 38 men have been convicted of polygamy in the Central Asian nation over the last five years.
A district court in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, has sentenced blogger and investigative journalist Abduqodir Mominov to seven years and three months in prison on charges that rights groups say are politically motivated.
Noted Uzbek blogger Olimjon Haidarov, who was arrested over the weekend in the eastern city of Qoqon on extortion charges that he rejects as politically motivated, has launched a hunger strike to protest against his incarceration.
The former mayor of Uzbekistan's southern border city of Termiz has been sentenced to 11 years in prison on corruption charges.
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