Film Crew Stopped and Questioned in Autonomous Republic of Uzbekistan
On December 1, police in Karakalpakstan, the autonomous republic of western Uzbekistan, briefly detained Russian blogger and film maker Aleksei Pivovarov, three members of his film crew, and their fixer, Feride Makhsetova, a local journalist at the independent news agency Hook Report.
The group was escorted to the Nukus City