Satire
3 august 2016

Tashkent turns into a closed city for citizens coming from other regions

People without a passport or a temporary registration for the city of Tashkent are hunted by the metropolitan police. Those people may be detained for a few days in so called “Hospitable” detention centers in Tashkent or may face high fines.

“You should better make visitors officially pay for entering Tashkent!”, claimed a high school graduate who was illegally kept in custody for 22 days due to the lack of registration.

“Policemen have but one concern, bully fellow citizens to force them pay fines,” says a native from the Surkhandarya region to the Ozodlik correspondent (the Uzbek service of Radio Liberty). Over the past three months he was stopped three times by police officers and was forced to pay a fine amounting to more than 1 million soums.

Tashkent authorities have established a fine of the amount of 400 thousand sum ($ 8) for those violating the citizens’ temporary registration rule.

On the eve of national holidays, the passport regime in Tashkent has been tightened even more, and any citizen with a “provincial” appearance becomes the object of attention of the police. These activities aim to ensure that villagers stayed at their homes. After all, they can watch all what happens in the capital on the TV.

Artist Elsevar

Read more
10 january 2018
On January 7, 2018, in his speech in the Tashkent district of Zangiota, President Mirziyoyev said that after the ...
21 may 2019
On May 10, police raided the home of a 55-year-old journalist and poet Mahmud Rajabov in the Gurlan district ...
2 april 2018
The chairman of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan, Ikhtiyor Abdullayev, made a speech at a meeting in the ...
9 may 2015
VERDICT in the name of the Republic of Uzbekistan On June 15 2006 the Yangiyer city court on criminal ...