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with compulsion in religious education and in defining one’s position to religion, to practise or not
to practise a religion, to attend or not to attend a service, rituals, and religious ceremonies, as well
as organization and holding religious services that inflicted trivial and medium bodily injuries –
shall be punished with fine from seventy-five to one hundred minimal monthly wages or arrest up
to six months, or imprisonment from three to five years.
(Paragraphs 2 and 3 – as amended by the Law of 1.05.1998).
Article 146. Violation of Legislation on Organizing, Holding of Elections or Referendum
Violation of secrecy of a ballot, forgery of election or referendum documents, making false entries
into ballots or subscription lists, knowingly false count of votes committed during organization
and/or holding of elections or referendum by officials, representatives of political parties or selfgovernment bodies, members of initiative group or election/referendum commissions –
shall be punished with fine from twenty-five to fifty minimal monthly wages or correctional labor
from two to three years, or imprisonment up to three years.
Article 147. Impediment to Exercising Electoral Right or Powers of Agents
Impediment to free exercising by individuals their right to elect or to be elected parliament
members or President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to carry out pre-election campaign, or of
exercising their powers by the agents of parliamentary or presidential candidates of the Republic of
Uzbekistan, by way of violence, threats, deception, or bribe, or of impediment to free participation
of individuals in a referendum –
shall be punished with correctional labor up to three years, or arrest up to six months, or
imprisonment up to five years.
Article 148. Violation of Right to Labor
A knowingly illegal dismissal or failure to fulfill a court decision to restore a person to a previous
position, after infliction of administrative penalty for the same acts –
shall be punished with fine up to twenty-five minimum monthly wages or deprivation of certain
right up to three years, or correctional labor up to three years.
A knowingly illegal refusal to employment of woman or her dismissal due to her pregnancy or
childcare –
shall be punished with fine up to twenty-five minimum monthly wages or deprivation of certain
right up to three years, or correctional labor up to three years.
Article 149. Infringement of Copyright or Inventorship Rights
Appropriation of authorship, compulsion of co-authorship with regard to the objects of intellectual
property, disclosure of information about such goods without the consent of the author thereof prior
to their official registration or publication –
shall be punished with fine from twenty-five to seventy minimum monthly wages, or deprivation of
certain right up to five years, or correctional labor up to six months.
SECTION TWO. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY
CHAPTER 8. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY