A plainclothed Uzbek security officer, center, who didn't give his name, breaks a protest banner at a demonstration in support of jailed journalist Ruslan Sharipov, outside a prison colony in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Saturday, June 12, 2004. Demonstrators and human rights activists had expected Sharipov's release, but a prison official said a parole decision could take up to a month. (AP Photo/Burt Herman)