In a video filmed in a supermarket, Uzbek blogger Xodjiakbar Nosirov tells his tens of thousands of followers why he believes that a number of yogurt bra
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A court's punishment for a popular blogger who called a food additive based on beetle extract "haram" highlights the limits of religious debate in Uzbekistan, as well as authorities' fear of bloggers whose audiences have boomed in recent years.
Prisoner of conscience Fazilkhoja Arifkhojayev is being forced to do work he cannot medically do, damaging his spine even more. He has been repeatedly tortured, and when the family asked Prison Governor Oybek Tishayev personally whether they could arrange medical care at their own cost, or as required by the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (known as the Mandela Rules) the prison could arrange the necessary specialist medical care. Tishayev replied: "Go on dreaming!"
A young man arrested on extremism charges in Uzbekistan is only the latest in a growing line of people accused of recruiting volunteers for fighting overseas.