Shock at journalist's ten year prison sentence
Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at a ten-year prison sentence handed down today by a court in Nukus, to Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov, correspondent for several independent websites. “This sentence is disproportionate and unfair. Coming a week after the EU/Uzbekistan forum on liberalising the media and ahead of the EU's decision about sanctions against Uzbekistan, it looks like provocation,” the worldwide press freedom organisation said.