Uzbekistan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The new Penal Code (1995) retains the death penalty...
- News items in the archive
- 154
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Uzbekistan is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 154 news items on Uzbekistan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- APRIL 1, 1999UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
In late April, Turkey extradited two Uzbek dissidents,...
In late April, Turkey extradited two Uzbek dissidents, Rustem Mametkulov and Zaynuttin Askarov, after receiving guarantees from Tashkent that the death penalty would not be demanded for them
- JANUARY 1, 1999UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The new Penal Code (1995) retains the death penalty...
The new Penal Code (1995) retains the death penalty for 13 offenses as opposed to the 30 offenses of the previous code
- JANUARY 1, 1999UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
On August 29, 1998, the Oliy Majlis (Parliament) removed...
On August 29, 1998, the Oliy Majlis (Parliament) removed the death penalty from the Penal Code as a punishment for 5 of the above offenses: forced sex satisfaction in perverted form; breaking of laws and customs of war; making an attempt on life of the Pr
- JANUARY 1, 1999UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences and executions in Uzbekistan have reached...
Death sentences and executions in Uzbekistan have reached an alarmingly high number with at least 56 death sentences and 20 executions known since the beginning of 1999