According to the number of complaints the conditions in Tashkent prison are the worst. In spite of many newly founded societies for the protection of women, women s rights are being abused, especially in country areas where the influence of particular Islamic priest who put women under pressure is considerable. The situation of children is becoming rapidly worse. Juvenile crime and drug addiction are on the continual increase. In some regions children are still being sent cotton picking, often unpaid and by force.
Religious communities play a negative role in the educating and raising of children.
Parents often do not send their children to school and try to educate them much more in the ways of Scharia. This does not often concern official positions, so the law on general school education is ignored. Although the cases of Dedovchina in the Uzbekistani army fell after the collapse of the USSR, such cases are still known to exist. It must however be admitted that the state authorities are engaging themselves fully against these occurrences, which the parents of maltreated soldiers also admit. The greatest evil is still the yawning gap between the official laws and freedom, the valid legislation and the use of these and the penal system locally and in the different regions.