US, Uzbekistan - RSF welcomes Muhammad Bekjanov, once the world's longest-detained journalist, to Washington

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomed Uzbek journalist Muhammad Bekjanov, once the world's longest detained reporter and winner of RSF's 2013 Press Freedom Prize, to Washington, DC, earlier this month for a series of meetings with members of the US government, nongovernmental organizations, and press. Once the editor of Uzbekistan’s leading opposition newspaper, Erk (Freedom), Muhammad Bekjanov is one of the world’s longest-detained reporters, having spent 18 years in p

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