Trial of man accused of shooting cleric told evidence points to government involvement in assassination attempt in remote town. Eurasianet.org reportsSwedish prosecutors possess accused the Uzbek government of involvement in the attempted murder of a dissident cleric living in Strömsund,referring to the country as a “gangster state” in court. Chief prosecutor Krister Petersson said the evidence suggested president Islam Karimov’s administration was implicated in the shooting of Obidkhon Qori Nazarov, a persistent critic of the regime, and in 2012.
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Source: theguardian.com