Site of former Tashkent prison handed to entrepreneur instead of being turned into public park.

The site of the former Tashkent pretrial detention center No. 1, widely known as “Toshturma,” was supposed to be transformed into a public park. However, it is revealed that in 2020, nearly three hectares of this land were instead granted to a private entrepreneur as compensation by then–Tashkent mayor Jahongir Artikhodjayev..