Activists At Uzbek Embassy In Bishkek To Protest Journalist's Arrest

RadioFreeEurope Friday 2nd September, 2011

BISHKEK -- Dozens of activists picketed the Uzbek Embassy in Bishkek today to demand the immediate release of Uzbek journalist Yelena Bondar, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. One of the organizers of the picket, Ulugbek Babakulov, told RFE/RL that Bondar was arrested at Tashkent airport on August 22 on her return from Bishkek, where she had ...

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