Panel cautiously optimistic on improving human rights in Uzbekistan
WASHINGTON, DC – A panel of scholars and journalists convened in Washington, D.C. in late September to voice cautious optimism that Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev – overwhelmingly elected to succeed the late autocratic ruler Islam Karimov in 2016 = can bring democratic and human rights reforms to the Central Asian nation. Alisher Sidikov, head of…
