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(NYTimes) Uzbekistan — Muhammad Bekjanov, often called the world’s longest-imprisoned journalist, did 18 years of hard time in some of Uzbekistan’s most notorious prisons, with nicknames like “Goodbye to Youth.” He was…

(Wall Street Journal) Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who ushered in his nation’s independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union and ruled it with an iron hand for more than 25…