Uzbekistan tightens rules for bloggers


  • TECH
  • Monday, 08 Sep 2014

TIGHTENING THE NOOSE: Uzbekistan on Friday approved a new law on what bloggers can post online, further tightening Internet restrictions in the tightly-controlled Central Asian republic.

TASHKENT: Uzbekistan on Friday approved a new law on what bloggers can post online, further tightening Internet restrictions in the tightly-controlled Central Asian republic. 

President Islam Karimov, who has been in power since the collapse of the Soviet Union, signed a law banning content deemed to back the overthrow of the state or spreading religious extremism. 

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