The Investigation Department under the Andijan province police department is conducting an investigation into the complaint of a 20-year-old resident of the Andijan province about gang rape by six men, the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan.

An audio recording surfaced on social media, which refers to a police scheme called "Beard", within which individuals with beards are to be identified, and to be photographed before and after shaving.

Officers of the State Security Service, together with other departments, arrested several officials red-handed while receiving a bribe, the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel reported.

The Environmental Protection Committee, which issued permits to kill two brown bears, revoked its permit for the second after one bear was killed.

On May 13, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the presidential press service said.

The Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov hosted the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan Zavkizod Zavki Amin.

Uzbekistan welcomes the announcement in Afghanistan of a three-day truce on the occasion of the holy holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The helicopter operator Uzbekistan Helicopters, a subsidiary of Uzbekistan Airways, has placed an order for the supply of four single-engine Airbus helicopters: two H125 and two H130.

In large cities, provincial and district centers of Uzbekistan by September 1 will be created shopping and entertainment streets, where businesses will be allowed to work around the clock. This was stipulated by the president’s Measures for swift development of the services sector Decree of May 11.

With the permission of Alisher Maksudov, the chairman of the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection, a brown bear listed in the Red Book was killed by a Russian hunter in the Tashkent province.

On May 11, on the sidelines of the second ministerial meeting of the Central Asia - China format in Xi'an, Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the Kyrgyz counterpart Ruslan Kazakbaev.

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, Uzbekistan will suspend flights to Japan, the Uzbekistan Airways said in a statement.

At the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction was held a meeting between the officials of Uzbekneftegaz and the French company Rothschild & Cie.

Uzbekistan Airways has put up for sale a number of aircrafts, the company said. Reportedly this was part of the project of further improvement and modernization of Uzbekistan Airways’ fleet.

A partnership agreement between the Uzbek Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade (MIFT) and the French Development Agency (FDA) was approved on May 10 in Tashkent. The cooperation program is designed for 2021-2025.

On May 10, the Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court for Criminal Cases sentenced 17 persons who were accused in the case of Sardoba dam burst, the Supreme Court reported.

Eid al-Fitr will be celebrated in Uzbekistan on May 13. While May 14-15 were also announced as non-business days. The Presidential decree has set non-working days for 2021.

As reported earlier, the Foreign Minister Kamilov met with French Minister-Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness Frank Riester.

The Legislative Chamber reviewed and passed the new version of the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations Bill in the third reading.

This week, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is scheduled to hold talks with the leader of Japan and the leaders of the Central Asian region, announced the spokesman to the President Sherzod Asadov at a briefing.