The Samarkand court sentenced a 74-year-old citizen who supported the restoration of the USSR to 3 years of imprisonment. The accused did not admit his guilt in court, but asked the court to reduce the sentence.

The S amarkand court sentenced a 74-year-old citizen who supported the restoration of the USSR to 3 years of imprisonment. In the Telegram group, he posted materials about "Uzbekistan's independence is superficial and the former Soviet Union has not officially dissolved."

The Samarkand city court on criminal cases issued a sentence against a citizen accused of violating the constitutional system of Uzbekistan , "Gazeta.uz" reported, citing court documents.

According to the case file, citizen E. Khasanov graduated from Samarkand State University in 1979, taught mathematics for two years at evening school No. 11 in Samarkand, then worked in the "Vatanparvar" organization and retired in 2011.

According to the court decision, in 2021, he started listening to the lectures of Russian Oleg Turishkin. A Russian citizen asked him whether he had applied for renunciation of the citizenship of the USSR. After he answered no, he was added to the group called "Gos.reestr SSSR". After some time, Oleg Turishkin sent the citizen a certificate of "citizen of the USSR" by mail.

EX met a man named Alexey Ivanovich on YouTube, then traveled to Moscow on January 3, 2023, where he met with people gathering supporters for the restoration of the Soviet Union. They said that this country has not yet legally dissolved, that it will return to the Constitution and laws of the time of Joseph Stalin, and that they will unite 15 countries through legal means in a few years.

The defendant joined the "Uzbekskaya SSR/USSR" Telegram group in March of last year. There he posted materials about "Uzbekistan's independence is superficial, the former Soviet Union has not officially disbanded so far, 15 republics that were part of it arbitrarily declared their independence with the help of the United States, and soon the former union states will return and join the USSR."

According to the conclusion of the comprehensive forensic-political linguistic expertise, his materials contain ideas openly calling for the unconstitutional change and violation of the current state system of Uzbekistan.

Also, he posted an article titled "V vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya partiya Bolshevikov goroda Samar kanda " in the Telegram group as a report of the secretary of the "VKPb" for the Samarkand region.

The accused did not admit his guilt in court, but asked the court to reduce the sentence.

Article 159, part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Court EX , preparing, storing or distributing materials of such content with the purpose of distribution) found guilty. He was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment.

In addition, he was forbidden to leave the house between 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM, to change his place of residence without the permission of the supervisory body, to go outside the territory of Samarkand region, and to use the Internet.

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