The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan published an updated list of materials recognized as containing ideas of extremism, terrorism and fanaticism. These materials are prohibited from being imported, produced, distributed or displayed in Uzbekistan.
The previous version of the list was published in January last year and included over 800 pages and materials (as of May 2023, there were about 500 materials).
This time, the list includes 1,389 materials in audio, video and text formats: Facebook — 203 pages (previously about 150), Telegram — 713 (almost 400), Instagram — 226 (more than 100), YouTube — 135 channels, Odnoklassniki — 35, TikTok — 44, websites — 13 and other sources — 20.
Resources with prohibited content are identified by the Committee for Religious Affairs together with the State Security Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Agency for Information and Mass Communications.
According to the law on combating extremism, demonstration, distribution and storage of these materials are prohibited, as well as access to them must be restricted.
The production, storage, distribution or display of materials containing threats to public safety and public order, according to the Criminal Code, constitutes grounds for criminal liability.
The list
