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Dzamshid Karimov

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Freelance journalist Karimov has twice been placed in psychiatric detention by Uzbek authorities–for 5 years in 2006 and again for 5 years in 2012. A nephew of former president Karimov and outspoken critic of the government, his current whereabouts are unknown.