BBC and the Associated Press, were denied credentials to cover the election. Around 300 dissidents were in jail in 2007, including Jamshid Karimov, the president's 41-year-old nephew. In 2016, Islam Karimov died after suffered with stroke for almost a week earlier, while still being a president and was replaced by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who was Uzbekistan's interim leader since the death of Islam Karimov. In December 2016, Shavkat Mirziyoyev won the presidential election with signs of fraud. On 6 November 2021, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was sworn into his second term in office, after gaining a landslide victory in presidential election. On 1 July 2022 protests broke out in the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan over proposed amendments to the Constitution of Uzbekistan which would have ended Karakalpakstan's status as an autonomous region of Uzbekistan and right to secede from Uzbekistan via referendum. They were brutally suppressed, at least 18 people were killed. See also Bactria Samarkand Dissolution of the Soviet Union History of Asia History of Central Asia History of the Soviet Union List of leaders of Uzbekistan Politics of Uzbekistan Soviet Central Asia Uzbekistan Uzbek SSR Indo-Aryan migration hypothesis Turkic migration References Footnotes Works cited Curtis, Glenn E., editor. A Country Study: Uzbekistan. Library of Congress Federal Research Division (March 1996). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Further reading History of Uzbekistan History of Central Asia