In one and half years, Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court acquitted 408 people repressed during the USSR. The work in this direction is continuing, Ikrom Muslimov, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court, said in an interview with Halq Sozi.
‘The Republican Working Group examines criminal cases from the archives and transfers them to the prosecuting authorities. If there are grounds for rehabilitation, it shall protest the annulment of the decisions made by the special "three." The Supreme Court hears criminal cases on appeal. The Prosecutor’s Office also lodges a protest and a request to reinstate the period for filing an appeal since the statute of limitations has expired’, Ikrom Muslimov said.
He added that rehabilitation cases are considered in the context of the regions. For example, the other day, 173 people were acquitted after being repressed in 1929, 1931, 1932, and 1941 and sentenced to exile, shooting, and imprisonment with confiscation of property. They were from Karakalpakstan, Surkhandarya, Dzhizak, and Samarkand regions.
Following the presidential decree dated October 8, 2020, ‘On additional measures to further study the heritage of repression victims and perpetuate their memory’, a Republican working group was established to study the heritage of repression victims further and coordinate work to perpetuate their memory.
Uzbekistan's Supreme Court to discover cases of 173 victims of Soviet-era repressions
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