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Sep 9, 2010 at 09:11Authorities in Kazakhstan plan to extradite 30 Uzbek refugees charged with "extremism" back to Uzbekistan, Association Droit de l’Homme en Asie Centrale (Association for Human Rights in Central Asia), a human rights group founded by Uzbek exiles in Paris, reports in a press release today. Human rights groups are concerned that the Uzbeks may face torture if returned to their homeland. The refugees have been in prison since their arrest June 9. The accusations against most of the prisoners are based on torture of the suspects, says the Association Read the story here.