A teenager has been found in Uzbekistan’s mountainous region eight years after he was reported missing in 1998, Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Thursday, quoting local prosecutor’s office.
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March 2, 2007Russia has secured permission for its military aircraft to use an air base in Uzbekistan, The Associated Press news agency reported Thursday, as part of Moscow’s efforts to extend its presence in Central Asia.
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December 22, 2006Eight Russian tourists and an Uzbek, along with two Egyptians, were injured Friday when a tourist bus overturned in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, MENA news agency reported.
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December 15, 2006
Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed a bill Wednesday on restoring the Central Asian country’s membership in a security alliance of former Soviet republics, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
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December 13, 2006Russian Federal Security Service has detained two Uzbeks belonging to the international religious extremist organization Hezb-e Tahrir, RIA-Novosti reports.
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November 15, 2006The Europian Union has reconsidered sanctions applied on Uzbekistan after hundreds were killed in Andijan mass disorders the BBC reported on Monday.
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Russia’s FSB security service defended on Friday deporting an Uzbek man to his Central Asian homeland despite an order by the European Court of Human Rights to stop his deportation, Reuters reported.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor to the KGB, said Rustam Muminov was deported on Friday, Interfax news agency reported. His supporters have told Reuters Muminov was deported on Oct. 24.
The FSB said Muminov had moved to Russia in 2001 and started “preaching religious extremismâ€, Interfax reported. The FSB said it had worked with Uzbekistan’s National Security Service on the investigation of Muminov.
Rights groups have said Muminov could face life in jail, death or torture in Uzbekistan, accused by the West of jailing thousands of dissidents and using torture in prisons.
Officials in Uzbekistan, an authoritarian Central Asian state, deny those accusations.
While in Uzbekistan, Muminov “occupied himself with the propaganda of religious extremism and made calls for the armed takeover of powerâ€, Interfax quoted the FSB as saying in a statement.
A spokesman for the FSB said statements were only forwarded to those his superiors deem should receive them and declined to send Reuters a copy. He declined to comment further.
Rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have called on the European Union to demand Russia cease sending refugees or asylum seekers back to countries where they face harm.
The FSB said that Muminov was “an active member of the international terrorist organization Hizb-ut-Tahrirâ€. Hizb-ut-Tahrir is an Islamic group banned in Russia and Central Asia.
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October 27, 2006An Uzbek asylum seeker, Rustam Muminov, has been forcibly sent back to Uzbekistan from Russia, Radio Free Europe news service reported on Wednesday.
Yulya Pigarina, an official at the Moscow transit camp for foreigners where Muminov was awaiting deportation, told RFE that Muminov “has already been expelled to Uzbekistan†but said she did not know when he was removed.
Muminov was arrested in Moscow on October 17 on charges of violating residency regulations.
He had moved to the Russian capital after a court in the central region of Lipetsk last month ruled against his extradition to Uzbekistan and ordered his release.
Muminov was first arrested in February 2006 on an Uzbek warrant.
Authorities in Tashkent claim he is a member of a banned extremist religious group and that he is involved in last year’s popular uprising in the eastern city of Andijon.
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