Jamshid Karimov is an investigative journalist in Uzbekistan.
10 Facts About Jamshid Karimov
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Jamshid Karimov has been a prominent critic of the administration of Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan, who was his uncle.
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Jamshid Karimov went to visit his mother, Margarita, on 12 September 2006.
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Jamshid Karimov was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Samarkand, but for some time his wife was not allowed to visit him.
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Jamshid Karimov was eventually released from hospital around the time of a visit to Tashkent by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in October 2011.
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Jamshid Karimov's health had reportedly been adversely affected by the medication he had received.
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In January 2012, Jamshid Karimov was again reported to have disappeared.
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Jamshid Karimov's name re-appeared in the 2016 census of imprisoned journalists published by the Committee to Protect Journalists after his whereabouts were identified by a reporter of regional news website AsiaTerra.
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On November 18,2016, Jamshid Karimov's daughter told AsiaTerra that the journalist was forcibly returned to a psychiatric ward in January 2012.
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Jamshid Karimov's daughter advised that a beaten Jamshid Karimov was not given a trial, and was suffering with chronic ailments that has left him in a grave condition.