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| Region | Uzbekistan |
| Issue | Censorship of LGBT issues |
| Status | Ambiguous |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In Uzbekistan, there are no known laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics. However, given the country's heavy restrictions on freedom of speech and expression, advocacy for LGBT rights may result in criminal prosecution. In 2021, an activist blogger who called for homosexuality to be decriminalized was sentenced to three years in jail for 'libel and public insult'. |
| Sources | https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rferl.org/amp/uzbekistan-beaten-blogger-bazarov-house-arrest-hospital-release/31231913.html |
Reports (1)
- Status is not correct "That 2021 situation must be enough to mark it with another category of censorship without law, UNTIL THIS NEW LAW COMING UP SOON:
13 November of 2024
Uzbekistan Drafting Law to Ban LGBT “Propaganda”
https://timesca.com/uzbekistan-drafting-law-to-ban-lgbt-propaganda/
"Alisher Qodirov, leader of Uzbekistan’s Milliy Tiklanish (National Revival) party, has announced that a draft law banning the discussion of LGBT topics is being prepared in Uzbekistan.
Qodirov shared this news on his Telegram channel, where he also referenced a social media post by Ivanka Trump, daughter of former U.S. President Donald Trump, who highlighted her father’s plan to cut federal funding for schools promoting “inappropriate sexual content” and “transgender ideology.”
Qodirov commented: “The change in the center of the disease is very good,” suggesting his support for similar measures in Uzbekistan. He added: “We are working on adopting a law prohibiting any kind of propaganda in this regard,” though he did not elaborate further.
In the past, Qodirov has also advocated for banning Soviet ideology and symbols in Uzbekistan.
This stance followed a recent case in Samarkand, where a pensioner wishing to restore the Soviet Union received a three-year restricted freedom sentence for actions deemed a threat to Uzbekistan’s constitutional order.""
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| Value | State-enforced | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | State-enforced | Ambiguous |
| Description | banned not allowed | In Uzbekistan, there are no known laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics. However, given the country's heavy restrictions on freedom of speech and expression, advocacy for LGBT rights may result in criminal prosecution. In 2021, an activist blogger who called for homosexuality to be decriminalized was sentenced to three years in jail for 'libel and public insult'. |
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| Sources | no sources | https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rferl.org/amp/uzbekistan-beaten-blogger-bazarov-house-arrest-hospital-release/31231913.html |
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| Value | Imprisonment as punishment | State-enforced |
Reports (1)
- Note field is incorrect "Needs more elaboration and sources"
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| Value | No censorship | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Description | In Uzbekistan, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics. | banned not allowed |
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| Status | No censorship |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In Uzbekistan, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics. |
| Sources | (empty) |
Reports (2)
- Status is not correct "In 2021, an activist blogger who called for homosexuality to be decriminalized was sentenced to three years in jail for “libel and public insult”.
https://eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-sentences-blogging-lgbt-supporter-to-three-years"
- Other "A foreign country's embassy in 2021 suggested that Uzbekistan be more open to the LGBTQA+ community, and the people started rioting. The violence against LGBTQA+ folks, feminine men, people with coloured hair, etc, spiked. So there is censorship about LGBTQA+ community.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/apr/02/new-laws-fuelling-increasing-hostility-and-anti-lgbtq-violence-in-uzbekistan"