A 38-year-old social media user who accused Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine has been sentenced to 5 years and 1 month in prison, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.
The Kattakurgan District Court in the Samarkand region of Uzbekistan handed down the sentence on January 4 to Bunyodjon Boboniyozov, for “insulting or slandering the president of Uzbekistan in public.”
Boboniyozov wrote the posts on Facebook under the name “Boboniyaz Ahmad.”
Several Uzbeks have been convicted in the past year under a criminal clause on insulting or slandering the president.
