The key facts

  • In the first nine months of 2026, courts examined 64,902 criminal cases involving 78,739 people — more than in all of 2025
  • 18,026 people were sentenced to imprisonment (31.4% of those convicted), versus 29.7% for all of 2025
  • 385 people were acquitted, of whom 161 (about 42%) were victims of political repression

Judicial statistics for nine months

According to the press service of the Supreme Court, in the first nine months of 2026, criminal courts examined 64,902 cases involving 78,739 people. That is 1,725 more cases than in all of 2025. The largest number of cases was examined in Tashkent, as well as in the Fergana, Tashkent, Samarkand and Andijan regions.

Verdicts and the convicted

Of 57,376 people convicted, 18,026 were sentenced to imprisonment, or 31.4%. For comparison, in all of 2025 there were 18,816 such verdicts, amounting to 29.7% of those convicted — that is, the share of imprisonment in the first nine months of 2026 turned out to be 1.7 percentage points higher than last year's figure. Another 38,737 people received other punishments, and 613 received suspended sentences.

Acquittals and release from liability

The courts acquitted and rehabilitated 385 people; according to the Supreme Court, 161 of them, that is almost 42%, were victims of repression. Due to reconciliation between the parties, 18,844 people were released from criminal liability, compared with 13,224 in all of 2025. In addition, 6,377 people were released directly in the courtroom after being assigned punishments not involving imprisonment, and the courts dismissed or requalified charges against 13,938 people against whom investigative bodies had initially applied the articles without justification.

Who was convicted and for what

Among those convicted were 50,435 men and 6,941 women. The Supreme Court classified 21,670 of those convicted as youth, of whom 2,097 were minors; another 2,052 of those convicted were over 60. The most common criminal offenses were fraud, theft, violations of traffic and transport safety rules, trafficking in narcotic and psychotropic substances, intentional infliction of light or moderate bodily harm, misappropriation and embezzlement, hooliganism, as well as the making, forging, sale or use of documents, stamps, seals and forms.

Case reviews and sentence reductions

Under guarantee letters, 47 people, including youth and women, received punishments not involving imprisonment. A total of 26,794 convicts were released on parole, and the sentence was replaced with a milder one for 8,761 people. The courts issued 34,325 separate rulings on eliminating the causes and conditions contributing to crimes. On appeal, 6,509 cases were examined, on cassation — 4,504, on supervisory review — 3,931, and another 567 cases were examined by the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court. According to its data, of the 646 people whose cases were examined by this collegium under supervisory review, the decisions of lower courts were overturned or amended with respect to 283, that is almost 44%.