One Year On: Uzbekistan’s Unhappy Ex-Ruling Family · Global Voices
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By the time he suffered a reported stroke from which he would not recover, his eldest daughter was under house arrest and his unloved nephew was languishing in a psychiatric prison. In Islam Karimov’s Uzbekistan, families regularly told the pro-government polling company how happy they were, even as authoritarianism flourished and corruption deepened.
His own family, however, could never quite keep up the pretence.