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>> A group of 12 US senators has called on Uzbek President Islam Karimov to “immediately and unconditionally” release two journalists and one human rights advocate who, supporters say, were jailed for their work. In a letter to the Uzbek leader, the lawmakers said the release of journalists Salijon Abdurakhmanov and Dilmurod Saidov and human rights advocate Akzam Turgunov would “further our important bilateral relationship”.
>> Apple conspired with publishers to fix the price of electronic books, a US judge has ruled.
The court relied on incriminating internal emails from Apple’s Senior Vice President, Eddy Cue, to each of the publishers named in the lawsuit. It also relied on testimony from the late Steve Jobs, which came from transcripts of interviews with Walter Isaacson, the author of Jobs’ biography.