Hundreds of people are still in detention in Uzbekistan after deadly unrest this month in the republic of Karakalpakstan over a proposal to strip the region of its autonomous status, a rights group said.
Fourteen protesters and four law enforcement officers were killed in the violence, the authorities have said, blaming it on unspecified"foreign forces." It was the deadliest unrest since 2005 in the Central Asian country, a former Soviet republic.A state of emergency in Karakalpakstan, which entailed a curfew and limited online connectivity, ended early on Thursday after Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev decided to lift it almost two weeks ahead of schedule.
ODF researcher Lyudmyla Kozlovska also said dozens of people were still missing. The Uzbek Prosecutor General's office this week dismissed a list of missing persons published by ODF as incorrect.Read MoreThe authorities have not said how many people remained in detention.Uzbek service members guard a road in Nukus on July 6, 2022.Following the protests, Mirziyoyev ordered his government to drop plans to revise Karakalpakstan's legal status as part of a constitutional reform.
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