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| Uzbek president in intensive care after brain haemorrhage, says daughter | Uzbek president in intensive care after brain haemorrhage, says daughter |
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| The Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, is in intensive care after a brain haemorrhage, his younger daughter wrote on social media on Monday. | The Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, is in intensive care after a brain haemorrhage, his younger daughter wrote on social media on Monday. |
| “My father was hospitalised after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage on Saturday morning, and is now receiving treatment in an intensive care unit,” Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, Uzbekistan’s ambassador to Unesco, wrote on Instagram. | “My father was hospitalised after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage on Saturday morning, and is now receiving treatment in an intensive care unit,” Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, Uzbekistan’s ambassador to Unesco, wrote on Instagram. |
| She said that the authoritarian 78-year-old leader’s condition was “considered stable” but that “at the moment it is too early to make any predictions about his future health”. | She said that the authoritarian 78-year-old leader’s condition was “considered stable” but that “at the moment it is too early to make any predictions about his future health”. |
| Uzbekistan’s cabinet of ministers said on Sunday that the leader of the former Soviet country had been hospitalised, in a statement published by the state news agency that gave no details. | Uzbekistan’s cabinet of ministers said on Sunday that the leader of the former Soviet country had been hospitalised, in a statement published by the state news agency that gave no details. |
| Late on Monday, the Fergana news agency, which was the first to break the news of the president’s ill health, said they had confirmation that Karimov had died on Monday afternoon. A number of other Russia-based central Asian analysts said they had heard from sources inside the country that Karimov had indeed died. However, there was no official confirmation of the death, and Russian agency Interfax claimed a source close to the president said Karimov was stable. | |
| Karimov has long been the subject of rumours of ill health that are difficult to verify, since information in the central Asian country is tightly controlled. | Karimov has long been the subject of rumours of ill health that are difficult to verify, since information in the central Asian country is tightly controlled. |
| He has held power in the country, which is strategically important and borders Afghanistan, since before it gained independence from Moscow in 1991. Karimov has no obvious successor and the country has never held an election judged free and fair by international monitors. | |
| His elder daughter, Gulnara Karimova, a flamboyant figure formerly seen as a potential successor, was detained under house arrest in 2014 after openly criticising officials and family members on Twitter. | His elder daughter, Gulnara Karimova, a flamboyant figure formerly seen as a potential successor, was detained under house arrest in 2014 after openly criticising officials and family members on Twitter. |
| Karimova-Tillyaeva is based in Paris. She revealed in a 2013 interview that she had not spoken to Gulnara for 12 years. | Karimova-Tillyaeva is based in Paris. She revealed in a 2013 interview that she had not spoken to Gulnara for 12 years. |