The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Ukrainian authorities to release Uzbek journalist Narzullo Okhunjonov. The journalist could face extradition to Uzbekistan, his lawyer, Aleksei Fyodorov, said.
A Kyiv court today approved a 40-day detention period for Okhunjonov, who has been living in exile since 2013, Fyodorov told CPJ. Authorities detained Okhunjonov under an international arrest warrant on September 20, when he arrived in Ukraine with his family from Turkey to seek political asylum, according to Oksana Romaniuk, director of the Kyiv-based Institute of Mass Information.
