The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan has formally acquitted and rehabilitated a group of nationals who were imprisoned or executed between 1920 and 1934 for alleged anti-Soviet activities.
During open court sessions held on May 6, the Criminal Appeals Bench of the Supreme Court issued acquittal verdicts for 161 individuals across eight criminal cases, citing Article 83 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Grounds for Rehabilitation). The full list of names has been published on the Supreme Court’s official website.
Records show that these individuals were originally sentenced by the Fergana Special Department of the Turkfront Military Council and the "Troika" councils of the United Political Directorate for Central Asia and Kazakhstan. They had been accused of providing material support to the Basmachi (Occupier, so-called by the communists) resistance movement, forming armed groups, and participating in anti-revolutionary uprisings against Soviet rule. Among them, 33 were sentenced to death by firing squad, while others received prison terms of two, three, five, or ten years in concentration camps. The group of those convicted included a woman and several minors.
“Consistent efforts are being made to restore historical justice and clear the names of our ancestors who were unjustly accused, stripped of their property, and subjected to exile and repression under the totalitarian regime. Justice has been served, and a truth long suppressed has finally triumphed. The untarnished names of these victims of repression—who sacrificed their lives fighting for our country’s independence, faith, culture, and national pride—will live forever in the hearts of our people,” stated the Supreme Court.
This large-scale rehabilitation process is being carried out under the President’s Additional Measures to Further Study the Heritage and Commemorate the Memory of the Victims of Repression Decree.
To implement this decree, a National Working Group has been formed to organize and coordinate the in-depth study of their legacy and the preservation of their memory. Thanks to the group’s systematic efforts and extensive research, 1,236 fellow countrymen repressed during the Soviet period have been formally rehabilitated and acquitted in recent years.
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