LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of May 19, 2025 No. ZRU-1065

About modification of article 135 of the Criminal code of the Republic of Uzbekistan in connection with toughening of measures of punishment for human trafficking crime

Accepted by Legislative house on September 17, 2024

Approved by the Senate on December 21, 2024

In recent years in the country the large-scale work directed to radical enhancement of the legal basis of protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the person, fight against the crimes connected with human trafficking and also the state support of victims of this crime is carried out.

At the same time, there is need of strengthening of measures of punishment for the crimes connected with human trafficking and establishments of the sanctions proportional to degree of public danger of this crime.

This Law makes the change in article 135 of the Criminal code of the Republic of Uzbekistan providing strengthening of measures of the punishment for crime execution connected with human trafficking.

This Law will serve prevention of cases of making of the crimes connected with human trafficking, to further increase in efficiency of fight against human trafficking.

Article 1. Parts second and third article 135 of the Criminal code of the Republic of Uzbekistan approved by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan of September 22, 1994 No. 2012-XII (Sheets of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1995, No. 1, Art. 3; Sheets of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1996, No. 9, Art. 144; 1997, No. 2, Art. 56, No. 9, Art. 241; 1998, Art. No. 5-6, 102, No. 9, Art. 181; 1999, No. 1, Art. 20, No. 5, Art. 124, No. 9, Art. 229; 2000, No. 5-6, of Art. 153; 2001, Art. No. 1-2, 23, No. 9-10, Art. 165; 2002, No. 9, Art. 165; 2003, No. 1, Art. 8, No. 9-10, Art. 149; 2004, Art. No. 1-2, 18, No. 9, Art. 171; Sheets of chambers of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2005, No. 9, Art. 314, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 417, 418; 2006, No. 6, Art. 261, No. 12, Art. 656; 2007, No. 4, Art. of the Art. 158, 166, No. 6, Art. 248, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 416, 422, No. 12, Art. 607; 2008, No. 4, Art. of the Art. 187, 188, 189, No. 7, Art. 352, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 485, 487, 488, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 640, 641; 2009, No. 1, Art. 1, No. 4, Art. 128, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 329, 334, 335, 337, No. 12, Art. 470; 2010, No. 5, Art. of the Art. 176, 179, No. 9, Art. 341, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 471, 477; 2011, No. 1, Art. 1; 2012, No. 4, Art. 108, No. 9/1, Art. 242, No. 12, Art. 336; 2013, No. 4, Art. 98, No. 10, Art. 263; 2014, No. 1, Art. 2, No. 5, Art. 130, No. 9, Art. 244, No. 12, Art. 343; 2015, No. 6, Art. 228, No. 8, Art. of the Art. 310, 312, No. 12, Art. 452; 2016, No. 4, Art. 125, No. 9, Art. 276, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 383, 385; 2017, No. 3, Art. 47, No. 6, Art. 300, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 506, 510; 2018, No. 1, Art. 4, No. 4, Art. of the Art. 218, 224, No. 7, Art. 430, No. 10, Art. 679; 2019, No. 1, Art. of the Art. 3, 5, No. 3, Art. 161, No. 5, Art. of the Art. 259, 267, 268, No. 7, Art. 386, No. 8, Art. 471, No. 9, Art. 592, No. 11, Art. 787, No. 12, Art. 880; 2020, No. 1, Art. 4, No. 3, Art. 204, No. 7, Art. 449, No. 10, Art. 593, No. 11, Art. 651, No. 12, Art. 691; 2021, No. 1, Art. of the Art. 5, 14, No. 2, Art. of the Art. 142, 144, No. 3, Art. 217, appendix to No. 4, No. 8, Art. of the Art. 800, 803, No. 10, Art. of the Art. 966, 968, 973, No. 12, Art. 1193; 2022, No. 2, Art. 81, No. 3, Art. of the Art. 215, 216, No. 4, Art. 337, No. 5, Art. of the Art. 464, 466, No. 6, Art. 575, No. 10, Art. 981; 2023, No. 3, Art. of the Art. 184, 185, 187, 188, No. 4, Art. 265, No. 5, Art. 319, No. 10, Art. 798, No. 11, Art. 921; 2024, No. 1, to the Art. 8, No. 2, the Art. 111, No. 3, the Art. 245, No. 8, the Art. 818) to state in the following edition:

"Same actions, committed:

a) concerning two or more persons;

b) concerning person, obviously for the guilty person who was down and out;

c) concerning the woman, obviously for guilty the pregnancy which is in condition;

d) concerning person which is in material or other dependence on the guilty person;

e) by previous concert group of persons;

e) with use of official position;

g) with movement of the victim through Frontier of the Republic of Uzbekistan or with its illegal deduction abroad;

h) with use of forgery documents, and it is equal with withdrawal, concealment or destruction of identity documents of the victim;

i) for the purpose of removal of organs and (or) tissues of the person;

j) made for the purpose of attraction to occupation by prostitution, -

are punished by imprisonment from five to ten years.

Same actions:

a) by stealing, use of violence or threat of its application or other forms of coercion;

b) made concerning person, obviously for the guilty person who did not reach eighteen years;

c) repeatedly or the dangerous recidivist or person who earlier committed crime, stipulated in Article the 137th of this Code;

d) made by especially dangerous recidivist;

e) the entailed death of the victim or other heavy effects;

e) made by organized group or in its interests, -

are punished by imprisonment from ten to fifteen years."

Article 2. To provide to the Prosecutor General's Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan and other interested organizations execution, bringing to contractors and explanation among the population of essence and value of this Law.

Article 3. To the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan:

bring decisions of the government into accord with this Law;

provide review and cancellation by republican executive bodies of their regulatory legal acts contradicting this Law.

Article 4. This Law becomes effective from the date of its official publication.

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