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 | | In March, the region’s governor, Ubaidullah Yamankulov, together with the prosecutor's office and police, confiscated the land holdings of several hundred farmers under the pretext that they were bankrupt. |
 | | A member of the party, Egamnazar Shaimanov, was then beaten up by unknown assailants, an assault that so infuriated the Jizzakh farmers that they attacked local policemen and a local town hall, overturning and setting fire to several cars belonging to local officials. |
 | | On 23 April, a journalist and member of the human-rights group Ezgulik, Ulugbek Haydarov, was attacked in Jizzakh, and on 28 April, three men badly beat another member of the group, Khurshid Mukhtorov. |
| www.tol.cz /look/TOLrus/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=114&NrSection=2&NrArticle=14014&ALStart=40 (1036 words) |
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