Two Uzbek journalists mistreated in jail

Two journalists arrested in Uzbekistan three weeks ago are believed to have been mistreated in prison. According to the family of Ulugbek Khaidarov, when his wife Munira was allowed to see him in jail she was shocked by his loss of weight and general state of health, believing that he was under the influence of psychotropic drugs. The family of Djamshid Karimov - a nephew of President Islam Karimov - have discovered that he was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital in Samarkand. His wife has not been allowed to visit him. "These are practices worthy of the Soviet era, when people were treated as mentally ill when all they did was voice their disagreement with the official line," says the press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders. (Via Reporters Without Borders)