{"id":92393,"date":"2012-04-05T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2012-04-05T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:23:21","slug":"moscow-journalists-protest-against-uzbekistan-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92393","title":{"rendered":"Moscow journalists protest against Uzbekistan censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1138695.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4405\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Freedom of speech demonstration held in Moscow against Uzbekistan | Demotix | BY RFE\/RL RFE\/RL\" src=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1138695-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Journalists and photographers gathered near the Uzbekistan embassy in Moscow to protest against the deportation of their\u00a0colleague Victoria Ivleva and Uzbekistan authorities\u2019 policy towards foreign journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Ivleva, a photojournalist for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.novayagazeta.ru\/\">Novaya Gazeta<\/a>, was <a title=\"Index on Censorship: UZBEKISTAN: Novoya Gazeta columnist deported\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/03\/russia-uzbekistan-columnist-deported\/\" target=\"_blank\">deported<\/a> from Uzbekistan without explanation on 23 March. She arrived in the country\u2019s capital Tashkent to hold free training courses for her Uzbek colleagues, but was refused permission to enter the country or contact Russian officials and then was put on a flight back to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Ivleva speculates that she was refused entry because the training was being organised by <a title=\"CPJ: Photos by Umida Akhmedova, charged in Uzbekistan\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/photos-by-umida-akhmedova-facing-charges-in-uzbeki.php\" target=\"_blank\">Umida Akhmedova<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; a notable local photographer who was charged on \u201cinsult and libel against Uzbek nation\u201d after creating a documentary dedicated to women\u2019s rights in Uzbekistan in 2010. But her expulsion could also be due to an article she wrote six years ago. Entitled\u00a0<a title=\"Novaya Gazeta: Country of fish\" href=\"http:\/\/www.novayagazeta.ru\/society\/29079.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Country of Fish<\/a>\u00a0the article describes how Uzbek people were humiliated and silenced by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Ivleva\u2019s colleagues waited until the beginning of April to hold a protest sanctioned by Moscow&#8217;s authorities. \u00a0They <a title=\"Facebook: Photos of Victoria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=187570038027760&amp;set=at.187569034694527.39684.100003242965578.751205986&amp;type=1&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">gathered<\/a> in Uzbek national clothes, with placards saying \u201cA man with a camera is no enemy to the state\u201d and other slogans. They told journalists that people of two countries, that once were fellow citizens, \u201cshould not suffer from deportations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbek embassy staff did not come out of the building to meet the protesters, but were\u00a0 seen videoing them through the window.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the protesters, Daniil Kislov\u00a0editor-in-chief of <a href=\"http:\/\/enews.fergananews.com\/\">Fergana online media<\/a>, told journalists that since 2005 Uzbek authorities have banished reporters from all the leading agencies, making the country a \u201cburnt information field\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists and photographers gathered near the Uzbekistan embassy in Moscow to protest against the deportation of their\u00a0colleague Victoria Ivleva and Uzbekistan authorities\u2019 policy towards foreign journalists. Ivleva, a photojournalist for Novaya Gazeta, was deported from Uzbekistan without explanation on 23 March. She arrived in the country\u2019s capital Tashkent to hold free training courses for her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[574,283,1647,7390,4451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}