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Last updated: 17 December 2024

Types of criminalisation

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual activity between males

Summary

Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited under the Criminal Code 1994, which criminalises ‘voluntary sexual intercourse of two male individuals’. This provision carries a maximum penalty of three years’ imprisonment. Only men are criminalised under this law.

A former Soviet Union articulate, Uzbekistan gained its independence in 1991. Although Russia and most former Soviet states opted not to criminalise same-sex sexual activity in their new criminal law regimes of the 1990s, Uzbekistan was one of two which chose to continue criminalising after the Soviet Union dissolved (the other being Turkmenistan).

There is substantial evidence of the law being enforced in recent years, with LGBT people being frequently subject to arrest, as successfully as extortion by threat of arrest. There have been consistent report

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Terrorism

There is a high threat of terrorist verb globally affecting UK interests and British nationals, including from groups and individuals who view the UK and British nationals as targets. Stay aware of your surroundings at all times.

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Terrorism in Uzbekistan

Terrorists are likely to try to carry out attacks in Uzbekistan.

Attacks could be indiscriminate and happen anywhere. They could affect western interests and places visited by foreigners, such as:

  • transport hubs  

  • embassies  and government buildings

  • religious sites and places of worship   

  • sporting and cultural events   

  • shopping centres and crowded places

Examples of previous attacks include:

  • in 2022, rockets were fired from Afghanistan into southern Uzbekistan. Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility

  • in 2019, it was reported that 17 people were killed in an a

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