World’s longest-jailed journalist freed after 19 years as Uzbekistan’s President ends confessions under torture

Source: Independent

BY Jane Dalton

Human-rights activists are celebrating after the world’s longest-imprisoned journalist was freed after 19 years in jail in Uzbekistan.

Yusuf Ruzimuradov was tortured and underwent a bogus trial on false political charges, according to the Human Rights Watch group.

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