Dear Mr. George Bush, the President of the United States of America,
on April 11, 2005 Uzbek authorities arrested 22 year-old journalist from Uzbekistan Sobirjon Yakubov on false grounds accusing him of "undermining the constitutional regime" in the country. His arrest was followed by a cynical meeting of first deputy minister of internal affairs, Alisher Sharafutdinov, on April 15 during which he said the government and his ministry did not have any special list of Uzbek journalists subject to persecution. He called such allegations "absurd". The meeting took place at the request of a group of independent and foreign-media journalists following an article on the Internet by an unknown journalist on alleged plans of the Uzbek Interior Ministry to attack independent journalists according to their special "black list".
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