Miraziz Bazarov, an Uzbek rights campaigner and government critic who has defended gay rights, remains hospitalized after three masked men assaulted him on March 28. Uzbekistan’s Interior Ministry issued a statement saying that Bazarov had provoked the incident with his online videos.
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