Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov gestures during a signing ceremony after talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, April 15, 2013. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A planned visit by Uzbek President Islam Karimov next week to the Czech Republic has sparked an outcry among human rights groups critical of his authoritarian rule who say he should be shunned, not courted.
However, Czech President Milos Zeman shrugged off their complaints as "hypocritical" and said he was merely renewing a decade-old invitation to the Uzbek leader to visit Prague.
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