Uzbekistan
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- republic; authoritarian presidential government
- CONSTITUTION
- December 8, 1992
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on the civil system
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral Supreme Assembly (Oliy Majlis) composed of Senate and Chamber
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, judges appointed by the president and confirmed by the Supreme Assembly
RELIGIONS
sunni majority
From the country
- MARCH 15, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. UZBEK RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PRAISE CONDITIONS IN KYRGYZ DEATH ROW CELL
the leaders of the Uzbek public association ‘Mothers Against the Death Penalty and Torture’, Tamara Chikunova and Dilobar Xudoberganova, shared their views with journalists at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, after visiting a death row cell at Bi
- FEBRUARY 12, 2006KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
CENTRAL ASIA. ACTIVISTS CAMPAIGN TO END DEATH PENALTY
human rights activists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan met to plan a two-year campaign to abolish the death penalty in Central Asia.
- JANUARY 1, 2006UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
With the introduction of law No. 482-II on April 25...
With the introduction of law No. 482-II on April 25...
- NOVEMBER 17, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
UZBEKISTAN. "WE ALL MERIT DEATH PENALTY" - UZBEK RIOT GUILTY
Uzbek TV broadcast a special programme covering the final day, on the 14th, of the court trial of 15 men charged with organizing an uprising in the eastern town of Andijon earlier in the year. Before the verdicts and sentences were announced, three of the
- NOVEMBER 2, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The number of crimes punishable by the death penalty were reduced from eight to four through amendments to the Criminal Code that came into effect in October 2001.
The number of crimes punishable by the death penalty were reduced from eight to four through amendments to the Criminal Code that came into effect in October 2001.
- OCTOBER 10, 2005BelarusDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. PACE PRESIDENT URGES BELARUS, UZBEKISTAN TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Rene van der Linden, president of Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, urged Belarus and Uzbekistan to abolish the death penalty in his public appeal on the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
UZBEKISTAN. UZBEK REBELLION TRIAL STARTS AMID COVER-UP CHARGES
prosecutors accused 15 Uzbek men of plotting rebellion in the eastern town of Andizhan but human rights groups questioned the credibility of their trial and said Uzbekistan was covering up a massacre.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
UZBEKISTAN. TV CRITICIZES US FOR NOT FULLY ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY
Uzbek TV's "Tahlilnoma" weekly analytical program criticized the USA for not completely abolishing capital punishment.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
UZBEKISTAN. AMNESTY URGES GOVERNMENT TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International criticized Uzbekistan for putting off its intended abolition of the death penalty until 2008.
- AUGUST 15, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
UZBEKISTAN. KAZAKH PAPER DOUBTS UZBEK DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION TRUE HUMANITARIAN MOVE
Uzbek President Islom Karimov's recent decree abolishing the death penalty can only be praised as a humanitarian and long overdue act, Delovaya Nedelya correspondent Andrey Saidov commented, questioning why it would only come into effect on 1 January 2008
- AUGUST 1, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
UZBEKISTAN WILL ANNUL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN 2008
President Islam Karimov has signed a decree cancelling the death penalty in Uzbekistan.
- JULY 1, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
UZBEKISTAN. COUNTRY TO KEEP DEATH PENALTY FOR AT LEAST 2 YEARS
Uzbekistan is working to abolish the death penalty, but it will be "no less than two or three years" before the country scraps capital punishment, Justice Minister Buritosh Mustafayev said.