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Journalist Abdulmalik Boboev fined by Uzbek court

April 6, 2012

In October 2010, VOA Uzbek Service reporter Abdulmalik Boboev was fined more than $10,000 by an Uzbek court that convicted him of slander, insult and publishing information harmful to the public peace. Boboev had faced eight years in jail on the charges for simply reporting the news. Read More