Uzbekistan: Protest Over Award for Leader. Unesco has infuriated human rights organizations by awarding a medal to the widely criticized leader of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, left.

Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov has passed on. But his legacy of repression, torture, massacres and slavery will impact millions of people for decades. This statement was originally published on hrw.org on ...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Uzbekistan's president, who has relaxed many of the policies of his dictatorial predecessor but has made little effort at political reform, is expected to win a new term by ...

Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who ruled Central Asia's most populous ex-Soviet republic with an iron fist for a quarter-century, has died at the age of 78. Uzbek state television said on September 2 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Islam Karimov crushed all opposition in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan as its only president in a quarter-century of independence from the Soviet Union. The country appeared to ...

The death of Islam Karimov, the 78-year old party boss and dictatorial president of Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbekistan, a key strategic power in Central Asia, was announced September 2 in official ...

His image was ubiquitous and his name everywhere as he ruled Uzbekistan with an iron fist for 27 years before his death was announced on September 2, 2016. But just ahead of the second anniversary of ...

A whimsical plaque at the entrance to an exhibition hall in Uzbekistan’s capital reads: “The heart that embraced the universe.” That may not be how many people in the country remember Islam Karimov, ...

A journalist and nephew of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov has been released from a psychiatric clinic where he was held almost continuously for more than 10 years, according to the ...

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Aides said Wednesday’s meeting was an effort to begin a new era of partnership with Uzbekistan, a country that is making its first fitful turns away from authoritarianism. By Julie Hirschfeld Davis ...

A geostrategic opportunity is opening for America in how Washington can advance the U.S. interests in a quickly shifting landscape in Central Asia. Two countries, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, will play ...