Uzbekistan
This is an article of a lady that was expressing herself through photography by taking pictures of Uzbekistan people. These pictures portrayed Uzbekistan as a horrible place by taking depressing pictures of the people and the places that they lived in. The government took a very defensive stand on the pictures, and was even found guilty of slandering and insulting the Uzbek people. In the end she was pardoned of her three year prison sentence.
There are actually substantial points for both sides. While it does seem that the artist, Umida Akhmedova, was trying to paint Uzbekistan in a negative light, it was definitely a major over reaction by the Uzbekistan government. They prosecuted her for just taking pictures. And the only reason they waived the sentence was because they were getting pressure from Moscow to do so. The official reason that they gave was that it was in honor of the 18th anniversary of Uzbek independence. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
It seems obvious that both parties were at fault for this fiasco. Uzbekistan didn’t need to react like that and those pictures didn’t need to be presented like that. In the end the situation was resolved but not that thoroughly and it is a situation that is going to come up again.
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