NOV. 11 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – A court in Azerbaijan agreed with the European Court for Human Rights that sentences against an opposition newspaper editor for terrorism, tax evasion and racial hatred were illegal but it also upheld a separate 30-month sentence for drug possession and kept him in jail.
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(News report from Issue No. 15, published on Nov. 15 2010)
OCT. 15 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Uzbekistan convicted a reporter of slander, insult and disturbing the peace. The judge fined Abdulmalik Boboyev, who works for US-funded Voice of America, $10,000 but did not jail him. Mr Boboyev was the second Uzbek reporter convicted but not sent to jail by Uzbek authorities in a week, the same week an Uzbek delegation visited Washington for talks.
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(News report from Issue No. 12, published on Oct. 21 2010)
OCT. 7 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — A reporter for U.S.-funded radio station Voice of America went on trial in Uzbekistan accused of slander and posing a threat to public order, news agencies quoted a local human rights group as saying. Reporter Abdumalik Boboyev faces up to eight years in jail.
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(News report from Issue No. 10, published on Oct. 7 2010)