HRW 'greatly' welcomes Mirziyoyev's decision to close Jaslyk prison

Steve Swerdlow, Human Rights Watch's Uzbekistan expert, welcomes President Mirziyoyev's decision to close down Jaslyk prison, which has for decades been known as the torture colony. The United Nations and many human rights groups, for almost two decades, had called for Jaslyk to be closed.

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