DM Monitoring
TASHKENT: Uzbekistan’s prison population has sharply decreased in the past ten years thanks to liberal reforms implemented in the country’s judicial system, Uzbek Interior Minister Pulat Bobojonov said over the weekend.
Currently, the central Asian nation has a prison population of 22,900, which is 67 inmates per 100,000 people, the minister said in his interview with the state news agency UZA.
Uzbekistan announced inmate figures following the government’s resolution to ensure transparency of its penitentiary system earlier this year.
Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been promoting a range of reforms to liberalize the judicial system since he took office in 2016.
