Appeal lost
July 27, 2026
Source:
Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan - Court Decisions Platform
On July 27, 2026, the Judicial Panel on Criminal Cases of the Bukhara Region Court, reviewed an appeal filed by the convict and her defense counsel against a prior judgment issued by the Qorako‘l District Court on June 10, 2026. The lower court had convicted the individual under Article 113, Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan and sentenced her to 5 years of imprisonment in a general-regime colony, calculating the sentence term from the date of her initial detention on February 24, 2026.
The court established that the individual tested positive for HIV, which was verified by the Republican Arbitrage Laboratory on October 10 and 13, 2022. On October 24, 2022, she underwent post-test counseling with a medical specialist and signed an acknowledgment regarding the explicit criminal liability for transmitting the infection to others.
Despite this official warning, the individual engaged in multiple instances of voluntary, unprotected sexual relations without disclosing her medical status
The defendant confessed to the acts during the preliminary investigation and trial hearings. Her guilt was further validated by formal complaint statements submitted by the victims to the Qorako‘l District Department of Internal Affairs (IIB), epidemiological investigation records, data logs of text correspondences, and scene inspection protocols.
The cassation appeal requested a reduction in the sentence to a non-custodial alternative, citing mitigating elements including the victims’ lack of claims against the defendant, her status as a woman, and her role as the sole provider for two minor children.
The Bukhara Region Court’s judicial panel examined the petition alongside the prosecutor’s counter-recommendation to deny the appeal. The panel concluded that the Qorako‘l District Court had properly established the facts of the crime, accurately classified her actions under Article 113, Part 4 of the Criminal Code, and justly imposed the minimum mandatory baseline sentence of imprisonment required by law given the scale of public endangerment. Pursuant to Article 509-10 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the panel dismissed the appeal and sustained the original 5-year imprisonment sentence without modifications.
