Uzbekistan to declassify information on prisoners and colonies

The Government of Uzbekistan has approved the list of information in the field of execution of sentences related to deprivation of liberty subject to declassification, Norma writes.

It includes data:

• on the number of persons held in penitentiary institutions and remand centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;

• on the number and location of penal institutions and detention centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;

• on the production activities of the penitentiary institutions, the goods manufactured by them according to the nomenclature and in monetary terms;

• on the number of deaths among persons held in penitentiary institutions and remand centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;

• on the number of convicts held in penal institutions with respect to which compulsory medical measures are applied.
 
The decision was made as part of a course to increase the openness and transparency of the activities of internal affairs bodies, especially in the field of the execution of sentences at penal institutions.