On 5 January, an Uzbek court sentenced a human rights activist to seven years in prison on charges of conspiring with terrorists, defaming the state, and religious extremism, after he briefed foreign media about the Government crackdown on protests in Andijan last May. More than 100 people have been convicted for taking part in the protests.
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