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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 |
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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"