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JournalismPakistan.com June 03, 2021 Published 2 hours ago
TASHKENT The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan has rejected the application of Agnieszka Pikulicka, a freelance correspondent for Al-Jazeera and The Guardian based in the capital city, to renew her press accreditation.
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President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev greets the audience at an official celebration marking the Newroz festival, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 21 March 2021, Presidency of Uzbekistan / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Though the liberalization of the media landscape and an increase in media pluralism has meant reporting on some sensitive topics such as forced labour or graft is now permitted, any form of investigative or critical journalism directed at the authorities is still met with [an] authoritarian response.
This statement was originally published on ipi.media on 30 April 2021.
In recent years, media freedom in Uzbekistan has improved under the rule of Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The reformist prime minister turned president has been in power since 2016 following the death of long-time ruler Islam Karimov. Since then, Mirziyoyev has moved to open up one of the world’s harshest dictatorships: quickly freeing imprisoned journalists, unblo