161 victims of repression acquitted

On May 6, the appellate instance of the Criminal Chamber of Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court issued acquittal rulings for 161 people who were repressed on various charges during the Soviet era. This was reported by the Supreme Court press service.

According to the report, on May 5, the Supreme Court received criminal cases involving a group of Uzbek citizens who had been accused, under decisions issued between 1920 and 1934 by the Fergana Special Department under the Military Council of the Fergana Group of Forces of the Turkestan Front, as well as the Troika Council under the Joint State Political Directorate of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, of providing material assistance to the Basmachi movement, forming armed groups, and carrying out uprisings and counterrevolutionary activities against Soviet rule. The cases were reviewed by a working group.

At open court hearings held on May 6, the appellate instance of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court issued acquittal rulings for 161 people in eight criminal cases under Article 83 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

In recent years, 1,236 Uzbek citizens repressed during the Soviet era have been rehabilitated and acquitted.

Earlier, it was reported that the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court had also acquitted 198 people who were unjustly punished by court verdicts between 1930 and 1938.