FILE PHOTO: Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrives for a meeting with China's president in Beijing, China, April 25, 2019. Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
ALMATY (Reuters) - The Uzbek Prosecutor General's office has decided not to press charges against the mayor of the capital city Tashkent over his threats to journalists but reprimanded both sides in a row that drew Western diplomatic attention.
The United States and Britain expressed concern over reports this month that Mayor Jahongir Artikhojayev told critical local reporters that he could make them disappear or frame them as homosexuals.
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