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Jahangir Mamatov (Джахангир Маматов) is a linguist, lexicographer, author, journalist, and a political analyst of Central Asian issues. He is a former member of the Uzbek Parliament and a co-author of Uzbekistan's Declaration of Independence. His writings, tenure in parliament, and other political activities were often greatly at odds with the Uzbek government. He was arrested but escaped into exile for many years. In 2005 he was instrumental in forming the democratic opposition group Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan (CDU) and became its first chairman. His writings are still banned in Uzbekistan. ==During the Soviet era== Mamatov was born on September 1, 1955, in Samarqand Region,〔1〕 married in 1980, and has four children. He was educated in Samarqand and at the Department of Journalism of Tashkent State University 〔2〕 from 1973–1979, where he did research in journalism and linguistics until 1981. He began his journalism career with the ''Toshkent Haqiqati'' newspaper in 1973, moving the next year to the newspaper ''Qishloq Haqiqati'', where he stayed until 1979. From 1980-1981, Mamatov was an editor at the State TV-Radio Company. He then worked for the ''Lenin Yoli'' newspaper in Samarqand Province from 1982-1985. From 1985–1990 he was a correspondent for ''O’zbekiston Ovozi'' in Samarqand Province and ''Qishloq Haqiqati'', where he had worked from 1974-1979. He also became a columnist for the satirical magazine ''Mushtum''. During these years more than a thousand of his satirical, critical, and political analysis articles were published. Some of his articles were collected in the books ''Youth'', ''Pure Dawn'', and ''525 Days that Shook Samarkand''. In 1990, at the age of 35, Mamatov received the title "Honored Journalist of Uzbekistan". In the same year he was elected from the Jomboy electoral district to the Uzbek Supreme Soviet (parliament), serving as a high-ranking official on its Glasnost Committee until 1993. During this period, he wrote the book ''Press Law'' and founded the newspaper ''Xalq So’zi'', the main publication of the Uzbek Parliament. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jahangir Mamatov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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