Supreme Court acquits another 208 victims of repression

On April 19, the Supreme Court considered 3 criminal cases involving 208 persons. According to the Kun.uz correspondent,   the Deputy Prosecutor General submitted petitions to restore the deadline for submitting an appeal protest to the Supreme Court’s Criminal Trial Panel in connection with these criminal cases, as well as protests in the appellate procedure.

It is known that dozens of our compatriots were sentenced to death by the decisions of the Tripartite Council of the United State Political Bureau in Central Asia (USPB) in 1930-31, and hundreds of people were exiled to concentration camps.

Within the framework of these criminal cases, petitions and protests were satisfied at the open court session chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court Ikram Muslimov. Based on Article 83 of the Criminal Procedural Code, the Appellate Court under the Supreme Court issued a verdict of acquittal against 208 persons on a total of 3 criminal cases.

Prior to that, 408 of our compatriots who were persecuted during the Soviet era were acquitted due to the efforts of the working group established in the Supreme Court on the issues of vindicating the names of the victims of repression and perpetuating their memory. Thus, the total number of acquitted persons reached 616.