Tuesday, 15 August 2006

UZBEK AUTHORITIES REPORT PROGRESS IN COMBATING DRUGS AND \'EXTREMIST\' RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA

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The Uzbek Prosecutor-General\'s Office released a report on August 15 claiming the breaking up of over 1,000 drug groups in Uzbekistan since January 2005. The report stated that the \"activities of 1,088 interregional criminal groups, which attempted to use the territory of Uzbekistan as a corridor for smuggling drugs to CIS and European countries, were stopped in the country from January 2005 to June 2006.\" Uzbek authorities added that the vast majority of the drugs seized were \"of Afghan origin\" and \"smuggled via Uzbek districts bordering on Tajikistan.
The Uzbek Prosecutor-General\'s Office released a report on August 15 claiming the breaking up of over 1,000 drug groups in Uzbekistan since January 2005. The report stated that the \"activities of 1,088 interregional criminal groups, which attempted to use the territory of Uzbekistan as a corridor for smuggling drugs to CIS and European countries, were stopped in the country from January 2005 to June 2006.\" Uzbek authorities added that the vast majority of the drugs seized were \"of Afghan origin\" and \"smuggled via Uzbek districts bordering on Tajikistan.\" The report further revealed that Uzbek security forces also targeted the \"delivery and distribution of religious and extremist literature,\" seizing some 52,800 copies of printed material and more than 10,200 audio and video products \"propagating religious extremism and fundamentalism.\"(Interfax)
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