An Uzbek journalist spent 18 years in jail. Today, he’s free.

After nearly two decades of imprisonment, torture, beatings, solitary confinement and exposure to diseases like tuberculosis, the Uzbek journalist Muhammad Bekjanov has been freed. His release Wednesday morning was no amnesty — he has served his initial sentence of 15 years and then some. In the years following the fall of the Soviet Union, of which […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/an-uzbek-journalist-spent-18-years-in-jail-today-hes-free/