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Karimov went to visit his mother, Margarita, on 12 September 2006.
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Jamshid Karimov
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Jamshid Karimov has spent many years in detention. According to Radio Free Europe, in 2004 Karimov was "beaten up on the streets of Jizzakh.. by unidentified assailants."
On 20 September 2006, Marat Khalturdiev, the head of the National Security Service"s regional branch, described Karimov"s disappearance as "a private affair" and said nothing more. Elin Jonsson, a freelance Swedish journalist who specializes in Central Asian affairs, who knew both Karimov and Khaidarov, said that earlier in the year they had told her they were worried about their safety, and that they were going to try to get a visa for Sweden.
Both men were reporting for the website ferghana.ru and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
On 22 September, the criminal court in Jizzakh ordered that Karimov be detained for six months of compulsory psychiatric treatment. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the government to release Karimov and Khaidarov immediately and end harassment of their families.
However, over the following years his detention was repeatedly extended, on unknown grounds and without a further court order. Karimov was eventually released from hospital around the time of a visit to Tashkent by the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in October 2011.
His health had reportedly been adversely affected by the medication he had received.
In January 2012, Karimov was again reported to have disappeared. As of May 2012, Jamshid Karimov"s whereabouts remained unknown, and campaigning organisations such as Reporters Without Borders suggested that he might be among a dozen Uzbek journalists currently in prison or other forms of detention.
