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TASHKENT (TCA) — The US State Department’s annual report on religious freedom, released on December 11, removed for the first time since 2006 Uzbekistan as a “Country of Particular Concern”. The State Department did, however, include Uzbekistan on a special Watch List, RFE/RL reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and killing a young woman in a case that caused public outcry in the Central Asian nation, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 11 said Afghanistan is preparing to export the first shipment of products through the Lapis Lazuli Transit, Trade and Transport Route within the next two days, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — An OSCE-supported seminar on assessing and managing the risks of violent extremist prisoners, including the rehabilitation of returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters, concluded in Astana last week. The two-day workshop was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana together with the joint United Nations System and European Union programme on the prevention of violent extremism in prisons.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev on December 8 visited Interfruit LLC, a dried fruit processing facility in Uch-Korgon, Batken oblast, in southern Kyrgyzstan. Joined by USAID Mission Director Gary Linden, Prime Minister Abylgaziev familiarized himself with the facility and how it sources locally grown fruits to supply global markets, the press service of the US Embassy in Bishkek reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) on December 10 released its first report on mining in Afghanistan, in which it says that the mines’ contracts are unclear and were signed after political consideration, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.
