It's time to adopt the legislation regarding the use of chemical castration against pedophiles in Uzbekistan, Komil Allamjonov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration commented on his Telegram channel.
"If you say that this issue cannot be dealt with without considering global experience on this matter, where such punishment exists, look at countries like Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Israel, South Korea, France, the USA, etc. As long as they have it, this is a punishment. They are being killed in China, Latin American countries, Saudi Arabia and Iran," Allamjonov notes.
Earlier there have been reports about the head of an orphanage in one of the regions of Uzbekistan forcing three minors to have intercourse with the heads of the regional justice department and the district emergency department for 10 months.
"In May 2021, the principal of the orphanage forced R., who was not yet 16 years old, to sleep with one of her acquaintances. The girl did not want to do this and resisted, so the headmistress brought a rolling pin from the kitchen and started beating the girl's underage brother in front of others. "The principal broke the girl's will and forced her to sleep with all the men she ordered," Nemolchi.uz writes.
In September, the first instance found the director of the Mercy House guilty of articles 135 (trafficking of human beings), 167 (embezzlement or squandering by using resources), and 209 (falsification of employment) of the Criminal Code and sentenced to 5 years and 6 months of imprisonment.
The heads of the Department of Justice and the Department of Emergency Situations were found guilty under Article 128 of the Criminal Code (sexual intercourse with a person under the age of sixteen). They were sentenced to imprisonment for 1 year and 6 months.
Ministry of Justice later reacted to this situation and announced that the official who was a criminal figurehead was fired from his position.