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The Uzbek Prosecutor General\'s Office on Saturday denied a report that one of the four men who fled to Kyrgyzstan after May\'s riots in the Uzbek city of Andizhan but have later come back to Uzbekistan died under torture. All four \"are charged with direct participation in the attacks on the buildings of the regional administration and law and order [agencies] and on a military base, with killing hostages and civilians, and with hijacking cars,\" Svetlana Artykova, spokeswoman for the office, told Interfax. She said the four former refugees were currently in preventive detention.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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