The high-profile case of taking a $50,000 bribe by an investigator from the Uchtepa Prosecutor’s Office ended with a court verdict of 13 years in prison. The defendant was found guilty by the Yashnabad District Criminal Court under paragraph “a” of part 3 of Article 210 (taking a bribe) of the Criminal Code. He is […]
The former head of the Rakatboshi Citizens’ Assembly (Tashkent) threatened to kill the leader of the Open Line group, Tatyana Dovlatova after a criminal case was opened against him. The human rights activist sought this for several years after she convicted Sattor Rakhimov of misappropriation of budgetary funds and illegal use of real estate on […]
The norms prescribed in the new law on the state civil service will affect corruption of the middle and lower levels. Such a conclusion follows from the list of persons who are not covered by the scope of the introduced legal norms. “This circumstance immediately discredits the generally correct intention in regulating the relations of […]
Two suicide attempts by prisoners in colony No. 49 (Almalyk, Tashkent region) were recorded by human rights activists from the initiative groups of Klara Sakharova and Tatyana Dovlatova. Khodjiakbar Sultanboev opened his veins on August 6, he was quickly bandaged and sent to a punishment cell. Already there, on August 9, he tried to hang […]
On August 3, at the time of receiving $5,000, an employee of the Investigative Department of the Department for Coordinating the Activities of the Department of Internal Affairs in Samarkand was detained. The Prosecutor General’s Office reports that the investigator promised the suspect mitigation of punishment in the criminal case. A criminal case was initiated […]
The story about the attempted suicide of a prisoner in colony No. 7 in Tavaksay (Tashkent region) was replenished with another episode. As human rights activists found out, a certain Timur also decided to commit suicide along with Alisher Yakubov. On July 25, fleeing from persecution by the head of the colony, Sharafutdin Usmanov, they […]
Three men who persuaded a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Tashkent to have sex were given parole by the Uzbek Themis. Two of them served only six months. And the organizer of the actual child rape, a former physical education teacher, was released 12 months after his imprisonment. One of the convicts now works as a registrar […]
Russian human rights activist Vitaly Ponomarev began publishing a list of those who died during protests against changes to the Constitution that deprive Karakalpakstan of sovereignty. So far, there are 34 people on the list, according to official figures there are 21 of them. New information over the past weeks comes from the Karakalpak diasporas. […]
In 1429 criminal cases, 1785 officials were brought to justice in just six months of this year. The press service of the General Prosecutor’s Office clarifies the composition of the criminals: 13 officials are employees of republican, 195 employees of regional and 1,577 employees of district (city) departments of ministries, institutions and organizations. 1210 persons […]
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