Radio Free Europe is reporting that the
small protest against the regime of Islam Karimov was
broken up by police yesterday.
The protestors, many of them from rural parts of Kashkadarya Province, threatened to set up a tent city in the Uzbek capital for a long-term demonstration. But police encircled the demonstrators and a clash broke out. Several of the protesters were beaten and some were bloodied. They were then boarded onto buses and taken to an unknown location. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
The BBC reports a similar story.
...Eyewitnesses said they saw more than 100 plain-clothed officers pull up, stamp on the tents, beat the protesters and drag them into buses.
"I could hear the voices of women and children crying out for help," said one local resident.
Not word one from the U.S., outside whose embassy this protest took place. The Uzbek authorities are not known for being kind to dissenters.
There really isn't anything else to say. They tried, they failed, and now I imagine somewhere in Uzbekistan they are paying for it.