JULY 5 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – In France, at least, it appears acceptable to describe Uzbek President Islam Karimov as a dictator. A court in France threw out a libel case brought by his youngest daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva against the news website rue89.com who described her as “a dictator’s daughter”. She said this was an unfair slight. The judge said it was accurate.
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(News report from Issue No. 47, published on July 6 2011)
JUNE 28 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – The London-listed subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s state oil company, KMG EP, reduced its 2011 oil production target by 4% because of strikes in the west of the country. Hundreds of oil workers have been on strike for a month over pay.
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(News report from Issue No. 46, published on June 28 2011)
MAY 19 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) -Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, youngest daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, began libel action against the French news website Rue89 for calling her the “daughter of a dictator”. Human rights groups welcomed the law suit as an opportunity to highlight the Uzbek regime which they accuse of killings and torture.
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(News report from Issue No. 41, published on May 24 2011)
NOV. 9 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – Germany’s human rights commissioner called on the International Labour Organisation, a UN agency, to investigate Uzbekistan for using child labour to pick its cotton harvest. This is the sharpest criticism by a leading European figure of Uzbekistan’s alleged use of child labour. Uzbekistan has previously promised to stop the practice.
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(News report from Issue No. 15, published on Nov. 15 2010)
OCT. 13 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Uzbekistan convicted journalist Vladimir Berezovsky of libel on the Russian language news website vesti.uz. The court granted him an amnesty and he returned to work afterwards but Human Rights Watch still said the conviction was an attack on freedom of speech.
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(News report from Issue No. 11, published on Oct. 14 2010)