Courts & Justice
A visually impaired Tashkent resident was denied a routine power of attorney on July 24 because a 2019 Ministry of Justice regulation prohibits the facsimile signatures that national disability law explicitly authorises. The Tashkent City Department of Justice defended the refusal, citing a Cabinet of Ministers resolution that requires a specialist of a profession that does not officially exist.
The Akaltyn District Criminal Court has sentenced six people — including the teahouse manager and staff from an unlicensed gas-filling station — over a December 2025 explosion that killed six cooks at the Bek teahouse in Gulistan. The court also ordered the seizure of real estate and vehicles worth 8.7 billion soums.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed legislation imposing life imprisonment for sexual violence against children under 14, as the government simultaneously announced a 30% rise in heating tariffs, dismissed the defense minister, reshuffled four Tashkent district governors, and arrested a deputy district governor for a $25,000 bribe.
A new Uzbek law imposes prison terms of three to eight years for unlawfully detaining or investigating individuals protected by immunity, covering parliamentarians, judges, lawyers and senior presidential officials, while barring inadmissible evidence and requiring presidential consent for prosecutions.
Javlon Yunusov, named as the prime suspect in the October shooting targeting presidential insider Komil Allamjonov, has been arrested in South Korea on an Interpol red notice — but extradition is reported to be stalled. The investigation has exposed a web of connections spanning Uzbekistan’s pharmaceutical sector, a Chechen-linked criminal network active in Turkey, and the informal use of privileged government licence plates.
The UFA Ethics Committee has imposed lifetime bans on three match officials and Kokand-1912’s sports director after finding they conspired to fix two Pro League matches in 2023.
Uzbekistan’s National Agency for Prospective Projects has fined Binance 102 million soums for operating without a licence and breaching anti-money-laundering and crypto-asset rules, marking an early enforcement test of the country’s 2023 digital-asset framework.
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