Word: saidjahon
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...coming back after a long estrangement, like Uzbekistan, are ones who share Putin's views on how to deal with terror closer to home. Yesterday, the Uzbek authorities officially confirmed that a month ago they clamped a seven-year jail sentence on the lawyer and human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. His official crimes were conspiring with terrorists and defaming the state. But Human Rights Watch and others believe that his real offense was telling the world - including in an interview with Time - the truth about the mass slaughter of hundreds of civilians in the Uzbek city of Andijan last...
...government of Uzbekistan violently quelled an uprising in Andijan in mid-May; now it's harrying those who contradict the official version of events. Late last month, Uzbek President Islam Karimov's security police arrested human-rights campaigners across the country, including lawyer Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. It was Zainabitdinov who alerted international human-rights monitors that the government might not be telling the whole story about what happened in Andijan. Uzbek authorities claimed that 173 people died, mostly militants. But based on first-hand experience and other eyewitness accounts, Zainabitdinov said the death toll could be as high...
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