LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of March 30, 2021 No. ZRU-679

About modification and amendments in some legal acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Accepted by Legislative house on March 4, 2021

Approved by the Senate on March 12, 2021

Article 1. Bring in the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan about the administrative responsibility approved by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan of September 22, 1994 No. 2015-XII (Sheets of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1995, No. 3, Art. 6; Sheets of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1995, No. 9, Art. 193, No. 12, Art. 269; 1996, Art. No. 5-6, 69, No. 9, Art. 144; 1997, No. 2, Art. 56, No. 4-5, Art. 126, No. 9, Art. 241; 1998, No. 3, Art. 38, No. 5-6, Art. 102, No. 9, Art. 181; 1999, No. 1, Art. 20, No. 5, Art. 124, No. 9, Art. 229; 2000, Art. No. 5-6, 153, No. 7-8, Art. 217; 2001, Art. No. 1-2, 23, No. 9-10, Art. of the Art. 165, 182; 2002, No. 1, Art. 20, No. 9, Art. 165; 2003, No. 1, Art. 8, No. 5, Art. 67, No. 9-10, Art. 149; 2004, Art. No. 1-2, 18, No. 5, Art. 90, No. 9, Art. 171; 2005, No. 1, Art. 18; Sheets of chambers of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2005, No. 9, Art. 312, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 413, 417, 418; 2006, No. 6, Art. 261, No. 9, Art. 498, No. 10, Art. 536, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 656, 659; 2007, No. 4, Art. of the Art. 158, 159, 164, 165, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 416, 421, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 596, 604, 607; 2008, No. 4, Art. of the Art. 181, 189, 192, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 486, 488, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 640, 641; 2009, No. 1, Art. 1, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 334, 335, 337, No. 10, Art. 380, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 462, 468, 470, 472, 474; 2010, No. 5, Art. of the Art. 175, 179, No. 6, Art. 231, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 335, 339, 341, No. 10, Art. 380, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 468, 473, 474; 2011, No. 1, Art. 1, No. 4, Art. of the Art. 104, 105, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 247, 252, No. 12/2, Art. 365; 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. of the Art. 341, 343; 2015, No. 6, Art. 228, No. 8, Art. of the Art. 310, 312, No. 12, Art. 452; 2016, No. 1, Art. 2, No. 4, Art. 125, No. 9, Art. 276, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 383, 385; 2017, No. 4, Art. 137, No. 6, Art. 300, No. 9, Art. 510, No. 10, Art. 605; 2018, No. 1, Art. of the Art. 1, 4, 5, No. 4, Art. 224, No. 7, Art. of the Art. 430, 431, 432, No. 10, Art. of the Art. 671, 673, 679; 2019, No. 1, Art. of the Art. 1, 3, 5, No. 2, Art. 47 No. 3, Art. of the Art. 161, 165, 166, No. 5, Art. of the Art. 259, 261, 267, 268, No. 7, Art. 386, No. 8, Art. of the Art. 469, 471, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 591, 592, No. 10, Art. of the Art. 674, 676, No. 11, Art. of the Art. 787, 791, No. 12, Art. of the Art. 880, 891; 2020, No. 1, Art. 4, No. 3, Art. of the Art. 203, 204, No. 7, Art. 449, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 539, 540, No. 10, Art. of the Art. 593, 596, No. 11, Art. 651, No. 12, Art. 691; 2021, No. 1, Art. of the Art. 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, No. 2, Art. 142), following amendments:

To add 1) with Article 201-1 of the following content:

"Article 201-1. Public call for non-execution or violation of acts of the legislation

The public call for non-execution or violation of requirements of acts of the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan creating threat to public order and public safety, including performed with use of mass media, networks of telecommunications, the world information Internet, and also printing or different ways of reproduction of the text

attracts imposing of penalty from sixty up to eighty basic settlement sizes";

Article 245 part one after figures "201" to add 2) with figure "201-1".

Article 2. Bring in 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 St 142, 144), following amendments and change:

To add 1) in article 158 part three after the word "information" with words of "networks of telecommunications or the world information Internet";

2) in Article 244:

add with parts one and the second the following content:

"Public call for mass riots and violence over citizens

it is punished by penalty from hundred up to three hundred basic settlement sizes or corrective works up to two years or restriction of freedom from three to five years or imprisonment from three to five years.

Same actions, committed:

a) by previous concert group of persons;

b) with use of mass media, networks of telecommunications, the world information Internet, and also printing or different ways of reproduction of the text,

are punished by penalty from three hundred up to four hundred basic settlement sizes or corrective works from two to three years or imprisonment from five to ten years";

consider part one part three.

Article 3. Bring in the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan of December 11, 2003 No. 560-II "About informatization" (Sheets of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2004, No. 1-2, of Art. 10; Sheets of chambers of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2014, No. 9, Art. 244) following changes:

The paragraph third Article 3 to state 1) in the following edition:

"information resource - information, databank, the database electronically as a part of information system, including the audio-, video, graphical and text information placed or published in information systems with open access";

Article 12-1 to state 2) in the following edition:

"Article 12-1. Distribution of public information on the world information Internet

The owner of the website and (or) page of the website or other information resource, including the blogger, not allow use of the of the website and (or) page of the website or other information resource on the world information Internet on which public information is placed, for the purpose of:

appeal to violent change of the existing constitutional system, territorial integrity of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

appeal to mass riots, violence over citizens, and also to participation in the meetings, meetings, street processions and demonstrations which are carried out with violation of established procedure, and it is equal to coordination of these illegal actions;

distribution of obviously false information containing threat to public order or safety;

propaganda for war, violence and terrorism, and also ideas of religious extremism, separatism and fundamentalism;

disclosure of the data constituting the state secrets or other secret protected by the law;

distribution of the information initiating race, racial, ethnic or religious strife, and also discrediting honor and advantage or goodwill of citizens, allowing intervention in their private life;

distribution of information including expressed in the indecent form showing disrespect for society, the state, the state symbols;

promotion of drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors;

promotion of pornography, cult of violence and cruelty, and also instigation to suicide making;

distribution of information directed to inducement or other involvement of citizens, including minors to making of the illegal actions posing threat for their life and (or) health or for life and (or) health of other persons;

making of other actions involving criminal and other liability according to the law.

The owner of the website and (or) page of the website or other information resource, including the blogger, also shall:

check reliability of public information before its placement for the website and (or) the page of the website or other information resource on the world information Internet on which public information is placed, and also without delay to delete the placed information in case of establishment of its unauthenticity;

perform monitoring of the of the website and (or) page of the website or other information resource on the world information Internet, including in instant messaging systems on which public information, for the purpose of the detection of information and materials specified in part one of this Article is placed;

without delay to take measures for removal of information and the materials specified in part one of this Article in case of their identification.

In case of non-execution by the owner of the website and (or) the page of the website or other information resource, including the blogger, the obligations established by parts one and the second this Article, access to the specified website and (or) the page of the website or other information resource can be limited to specially authorized body according to the procedure, established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Violation of the requirements established by parts one and the second this Article involves responsibility according to the legislation.

Persons whose rights and legitimate interests were violated by the owner of the website and (or) page of the website or other information resource, including the blogger, as a result of non-execution by it of the requirements provided by parts one and the second this Article having the right to appeal in accordance with the established procedure to court for protection of the rights, honor, advantage and goodwill including with indemnification claims, compensations of moral harm".

Article 4. To the agency of information and mass communications under Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to the Ministry of development of information technologies and communications and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan to provide execution, bringing to contractors and explanation among the population of essence and value of this Law.

Article 5. 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 state bodies of their regulatory legal acts contradicting this Law.

Article 6. This Law becomes effective from the date of its official publication.

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