International Development: Uzbekistan investigates US based NGO

The Uzbek Justice Ministry is investigating U.S. nongovernmental group Project HOPE to determine whether the group's activities in the country comply with its declared goals and Uzbek law. The organization has been running health projects in Central Asia.

Radio Free Europe reports that Aktam Jalilov, an official of the Uzbek think tank Regional Policy Foundation, said Project HOPE helped deliver humanitarian aid to a camp of Uzbek refugees in Kyrgyzstan in May 2005.

He told journalists that the camp accommodated members of the banned Islamic group Akromiya following a government crackdown in the Uzbek eastern city of Andijon.

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