Experts Address Judicial & Legal Reforms In Uzbekistan

The international roundtable “The conceptual issues of humanization and liberalization the penal and legal legislature – the state and prospects of deepening the legal and judicial reforms in Uzbekistan” has been held in Tashkent, the local papers reported July 26 this year. The Institute for the study of civil society, Institute of monitoring the current legislation of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and German Konrad-Adenauer Fund organized the meeting, according to the reports.

The members of both houses of the Uzbek national parliament - Oliy Majlis, representatives of diplomatic corps in Tashkent, experts, scholars and heads of the higher educational institutions of Uzbekistan as well as experts from Russia, Germany, the U.S. and Japan took part in the roundtable.

The participants are reported have shared their views o­n the current democratic transformations in Uzbekistan in the context of liberalization of the judicial and legal system and adoption of the Laws “On introducing amendments and addenda to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in view of abolition the death penalty” and “On introducing amendments and addenda to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in view of transferring to courts the right to issue the arrest warrants”.

The event is also reported to have underscored that decrees of the President Islam Karimov “On abolition the death penalty in the Republic of Uzbekistan” and “On transferring to courts the right to issue the arrest warrants” and adoption of the corresponding laws with regard to such documents has been highly assessed by the world community. Being a logical continuation of the activity to further liberalize the judicial and legal system, they will serve to taking the processes of establishing the democratic state in Uzbekistan up to a new level.

The roundtable has also addressed such issues as strengthening the judiciary, defense lawyers’ institution, institutions for extra-judicial defense of citizens and introducing the institutions for reconciliation of sides.