By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Torture is rife in prisons and police stations in Uzbekistan, where activists are rounded up and routinely mistreated, the U.N. torture watchdog said on Friday. The U.N. Committee against Torture called on Uzbekistan to carry out prompt, impartial and effective investigations into all allegations of torture and punish those responsible. The government of President Islam Karimov should report back within a year on its progress in wiping out "widespread torture" and arbitrary imprisonment of human rights defenders and journalists imprisoned in retaliation for their work, it said. However, Akmal Saidov, chairman of the National Human Rights Centre of Uzbekistan who led its delegation, and said during the watchdog's review that numerous complaints of torture raised were "unfounded".
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