http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/16/asia/AS-GEN-Uzbekistan-Media-Law.php
Uzbekistan adopts new law tightening media control TASHKENT, Uzbekistan: A new law that puts more restrictions on the media in Uzbekistan took effect Tuesday, as part of an ongoing government campaign against dissent in the ex-Soviet republic. The law holds all foreign and domestic media organizations responsible for "objectivity" of their reporting, prohibits coverage of trials and criminal investigations without special authorization, and bans foreign journalists from working in the country without official accreditation. It also prohibits the promotion of religious extremism, separatism and fundamentalism, as well as the instigation of ethnic and religious hatred. Religious issues are highly sensitive in this Central Asian nation, whose government has drawn international condemnation for its relentless and abusive campaign against religious dissent under the pretext of fighting Islamic radicals. The legislation, signed into law Monday by President Islam Karimov, comes amid a crackdown on dissent that followed the brutal suppression of an uprising in Andijan in May 2005 that was extensively covered by foreign reporters. In March, the Uzbek government introduced new rules that called for fines or even expulsion for foreign journalists who are found to have interfered in the country's internal affairs. Authorities have shut down the local offices of the British Broadcasting Corp., U.S.-funded Radio Freedom/Radio Liberty and several Western aid groups, including two that worked to promote free media. Rights groups and witnesses said that more than 700 people, most of them peaceful demonstrators, were killed by government troops during the crackdown in Andijan. The government contended the uprising was encouraged by Islamic extremists, and put the death toll at 187. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
