Uzbekistan introduces fines for spreading false information

The draft law “On introducing amendments to the Administrative Responsibility Code of Uzbekistan” has been published.

The Administrative Responsibility Code of Uzbekistan will be supplemented by Article 189-2 with the following content:

“Article 189-2. Dissemination of false information

Disseminating intentionally socially unreliable information under the guise of reliable messages by using the mass media, information and telecommunication networks, as well as the Internet and endangering the life and (or) health of citizens, threatening public order and (or) public safety, preventing the normal operation of state bodies, civil self-government bodies, enterprises, institutions and organizations, regardless of their ownership entails imposition of a fine for citizens in the amount of twenty to forty times base calculating amount (BCA), and for officials – forty to sixty times BCA. The tools that are the subject of an administrative offense will be confiscated.