The key facts

  • Over 9 months, 549,231 cases involving 662,237 people were reviewed
  • 420,245 people were held administratively liable: 340,986 fined, 77,309 arrested
  • 71,450 people were released from liability due to reconciliation between the parties

The scale of administrative practice over nine months

The press service of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan has published statistics on the review of administrative cases over nine months of the current year. Investigative judges of district and city courts for criminal cases reviewed 549,231 administrative offense cases involving 662,237 people. Administrative penalties were applied to 420,245 people: 340,986 people were fined, and 77,309 were subjected to administrative arrest. Another 71,450 people were released from administrative liability due to reconciliation between the parties.

Where and for what offenses penalties were most often imposed

The largest number of cases was reviewed in Tashkent, as well as in the Samarkand, Tashkent, Fergana, and Kashkadarya regions. Among the most frequent offenses named were petty hooliganism, failure to comply with lawful demands of internal affairs officers, passenger transportation without a license, carrying bladed weapons or objects that could replace them, insult, violation of rules for using electricity, heat energy, and gas, violation of trade or service rules, drivers violating traffic rules causing minor bodily injury or significant material damage to the victim, drinking alcohol in public places, and driving a vehicle while intoxicated.

What happened in higher instances

In addition to first-instance courts, the statistics also cover case review on appeal. On appeal, 6,804 cases involving 7,656 people were reviewed: first-instance decisions were overturned with respect to 1,496 people and modified with respect to 2,495. On cassation, 10,152 cases involving 10,656 people were reviewed, with decisions overturned for 4,379 people and modified for 2,347. The Criminal Cases Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court reviewed 918 cases involving 955 people in supervisory review: decisions of lower courts were overturned for 187 people and modified for 232. Notably, the share of overturned decisions in cassation is significantly higher than in appeal: 4,379 overturns versus 1,496 with a comparable number of cases, which indicates a more thorough review of cases at this level.