The Uzbek government has significantly strengthened marriage regulations to prevent genetic mutations caused by incest. According to foreign media outlets such as the Times of Central Asia, an English-language media outlet in Central Asia, on the 29th (local time), Uzbek authorities expanded the scope of regulations on incest by banning marriage between uncles, aunts, nephews, and men and women within the same 8th degree of kinship. Uzbekistan's existing family law only prohi