High-Risk Trials - regional seminar held in Tashkent

Participants exchanged their knowledge and practices with judiciary experts from France and Spain, EU countries that have suffered from many serious terrorist attacks resulting in dozens of victims. The visitors explained how they faced the challenges by, inter alia, creating specialized courts and prosecutor offices dedicated to investigate and to prosecute terrorism cases only. They also shared information on the preparation and organization of concrete judicial oral proceedings, where the security and the smooth development of the act were at stake. Participants discussed about the respect for the rights of all parties involved in a judicial process, and especially those victims of terrorism, and their families, to avoid being left behind.

Officials from Central Asia actively participated and discussed in groups the organization of the judicial procedures and the oral audience on a fiction terrorist case. The exercise was prepared ad conducted by the expert visitors who made the discussions more real and interesting introducing some sudden "incidents" that needed judicial decisions.

The Ambassador of the EU in Uzbekistan Charlotte Adriaen in her opening remarks stressed that "the seminarunderscores EU's commitment to supporting security and the rule of law in Central Asian region and beyond".

The Law Enforcement in Central Asia Project - LEICA is managed by the European Commission, through a consortium made up of French CIVIPOL, and Slovak ISEMI. The project is supported by INTERPOL.