The minimum age of criminal responsibility has been raised in Uzbekistan. Now adolescents from the age of 14 will have to be answerable before the law. Previously, adolescents could get criminal punishment for premeditated murder under aggravated circumstances from the age of 13.
The President signed the Amendments to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Connection with the Further Improvement of the System for Ensuring the Rights of a Child.
The document says that Uzbekistan has increased the minimum age from which a person can be prosecuted, from 13 to 14 years.
According to the current legislation, in Uzbekistan, persons who turned 13 years old could be subject to criminal responsibility only for premeditated murder under aggravated circumstances (part two of Article 97 of the Criminal Code).
For other crimes, depending on the articles of the Criminal Code, the minimum age for prosecution is 14, 16 and 18 years.
The above amendments took effect on December 8.
