A brief letter to the New York Times highlights the ongoing situation of enforced child labor to hand-pick cotton in Uzbekistan. Read it online.
The Uzbek custom service has seized a large batch of Christian literature owned by the Biblical Society. A total of 3,495 brochures in Uzbek written in Cyrillic and 1,495 in Roman script and 1,995 brochures in Karakalpak which were destined for missionaries were seized. Read more.