(L-R) Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emoamli Rakhmon, Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and Afghan President Khamid Karzai pose for a group photo as they gather for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek on August 16, 2007. The leaders of Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian states said on Thursday energy cooperation was the key to the security in their resource-rich region, which they intend to uphold through common instruments. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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Uzbekistan trial looks like scripted affair, say critics
To critics of Uzbek President Islam Karimov the trial in Tashkent of 15 men accused over a massacre in Andijan province this spring was never likely to be more than a show trial.
Regional Roundups
News in brief from around the region.
Uzbekistan court puts 15 on trial over massacre
The supreme court in the central Asian state of Uzbekistan on Tuesday began hearing the cases of 15 men accused over a massacre that has been portrayed by the authorities as an Islamic insurgency but by critics as a mass slaughter of unarmed civili
Regional Roundups
News in brief from around the region.
Uzbek court jails six women on extremism charges
A court in the Uzbek capital Tashkent sentenced six women to between five and eight years in jail on July 20 for belonging to a banned Islamic organisation that threatened the constitutional order, a human rights group and defendants relatives sai
Central Asians demand pullout of Western military bases
The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a six-nation security bloc, called for a deadline to be set on the pullout of Western bases from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and slammed outside interference in their affairs at a summit in
Uzbekistan capital's mysteriously vanishing streets
Residents of Uzbekistans capital Tashkent have been baffled by how some of the citys main central streets have vanished recently, with gardeners at times watering flower beds where only a day before there had been busy asphalt-paved road.
Analysis: Uzbek leader escapes isolation
In Beijing this week Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov signed a treaty of partnership with China that set the seal on a $600 million oil deal with the China National Petroleum Corp., along with 14 cooperation agreements on trade, customs, high tec
Opinion: Is Azerbaijan next for a revolution?
Four presidents attended an April session of the GUUAM regional organization of Georgia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau. Uzbek President Islam Karimov ignored it because his country was preparing to wi
Uzbek troops reclaim control of volatile border
Uzbek troops reclaimed control on Wednesday over a key town on the volatile Uzbek-Kyrgyz border and reportedly arrested local Islamist leaders, as the Uzbek government worked to contain social unrest after last weeks violent military crackdown. {/
