Escada Lounge Bar in Chilanzar district of Tashkent posted a video ad on its New Year's shows on its Instagram account on December 25. The video shows guy hitting seven girls standing with their backs to their buttocks and legs, saying the date with each hit: "December 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 - every day."
"A big New Year's show," "free entrance," "you can come and relax freely," the guy says, gesturing towards the girls.
The post is accompanied by the tags #uzbekistan, #tashkentcity, #navoi, #bukhara, #kunuz, #zortv and others, as well as the caption "Jonkalani olovi."
Complaint to the Police department
Tashkent resident Evgeniya M. reported that she wrote a complaint to the Chilanzar District Police department with a request to check the advertisement for violation of the Protection of Women from Harassment and Violence Law and On Guarantees of Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men law".
In the complaint, she recalls that Uzbekistan, as a member of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, condemns such manifestations and undertakes to pursue a policy of eliminating discrimination against women by all appropriate means.
In her opinion, the bar's advertisement "promotes a disrespectful, consumerist attitude towards women." "As a woman, I consider myself insulted by such advertising, which is also widely distributed in the media," Evgeniya said.
She asked to take measures to ensure respectful treatment of women and address discrimination.
