Yangi ko'milgan qabrlar shaharning "Bog'ishamol" tumanidagi qabriston yonidan topilgan. Ushbu manzarani o'z ko'zi bilan ko'rgan jurnalist Markus Bensmanning so'zlariga ko'ra, raqamlangan 49 yangi ko'milgan qabrlar ochiq dalada joylashgan.

O'zbekiston xalq rassomi, O'zbekiston va Rossiya badiiy akademiyalari a'zosi, professor Rahim Ahmedov tomonidan Rossiya Federasiyasi Prezidenti Vladimir Putinga hadya etilgan suratning topshirilish marosimi bo'lib o'tdi.

"Sweden is a country of cyclists," Kudrat Babadjanov said.

Babadjanov has been in Sweden since February when he and several other Uzbek journalists were granted political asylum in this country. The nationwide campaign against independent media outlets that followed the massacre in Andijan resulted in a journalistic exodus from Uzbekistan. Bureaus of RL/RFE, BBC, and office of IWPR - foreign media outlets employing a great deal of local correspondents - were closed in Uzbekistan. Lots of correspondents who had spoken up on what was happening in the country left Uzbekistan for fear of arrest or reprisals.