Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court press service reported that criminal courts reviewed 64,902 cases involving 78,739 people in the first nine months of 2026. That is 1,725 more cases than the courts handled during all of 2025, according to the announcement. The largest share of cases was reviewed in Tashkent city, Fergana, Tashkent, Samarkand and Andijan regions. The figures offer a detailed snapshot of the workload facing the country’s criminal justice system, sentencing practice and judicial oversight.
Key Takeaways: Courts reviewed 64,902 cases involving 78,739 people; 385 people were acquitted and rehabilitated, including 161 victims of repression. Of 57,376 convicted people, 18,026 (31.4%) received prison sentences, 38,737 received other penalties and 613 received suspended sentences. The share of custodial sentences rose by 1.7 percentage points from 29.7% in 2025 to 31.4% in the first nine months of 2026.
The convicted population included 50,435 men and 6,941 women. The Supreme Court classified 21,670 convicted people as youth, including 2,097 minors, while 2,052 convicted people were over 60. A total of 18,844 people were exempted from criminal liability because the parties reconciled, compared with 13,224 such people in all of 2025. After non-custodial penalties were imposed, 6,377 people were released from detention in the courtroom.
Courts removed or reclassified allegedly unfounded charges filed by pre-investigation bodies for 13,938 people. Based on guarantee letters, 47 people, including young people and women, received penalties not involving imprisonment. Another 26,794 people were conditionally released before serving their full term, and 8,761 convicted people had their sentences replaced with lighter penalties. These figures highlight the scale of judicial review of investigation findings and the use of alternatives to incarceration.
The cases mainly involved fraud, theft, violations of vehicle-use or traffic-safety rules, illegal circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, intentional minor or moderate bodily injury, embezzlement or theft through misappropriation, and hooliganism. The statistics also covered cases related to the production, forgery, sale or use of documents, stamps, seals and forms. To address the causes and conditions of crimes, courts issued 34,325 private rulings and sent them to relevant agencies.
The Supreme Court’s Criminal Cases Judicial Panel reviewed cases concerning 646 people under supervisory review and overturned or changed lower court decisions for 283 of them, or about 44%. The published data are expected to support further analysis of judicial statistics, sentencing policy and the quality of court decisions. The Supreme Court may release additional details on specific case categories, acquittals and rehabilitation measures in upcoming updates.
Source: www.gazeta.uz