They took off the pants and beat her with a flask on the genitals. This is how 45-year-old Nargiza Razhapova was tortured by operational officers of the Department of Internal Affairs of Osh city in connection with the possible involvement in the murder of police lieutenant colonel of the Department of Internal Affairs of Osh for combating drug trafficking Tairbek Ularov.
In March 2017, Nargiza Razhapova, her husband, minor son and brother were detained on suspicion of killing Ularov. The woman opened a shop near the building of the Service for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking under the Internal Affairs Directorate of the southern capital. And the policeman, who was killed, sometimes bought goods from her. Nargiza was one of the last people he contacted by phone. That is why Razhapova and her family members were in the field of view of law enforcement officers.
“They didn’t talk about the murder. They wanted me to confess that I was the mistress of the murdered man and allegedly my husband was jealous of him for me. I was very scared at that moment. When they said that my husband allowed them to rape me and sprinkle salt on my genitals, it was the most offensive to me. At first I even believed that my husband said so, because they said all this so earnestly,” says the woman.
The policemen brutally beat her and her family members: they strangled her, putting a bag over her head, and put needles under her nails. Nargiza was raped with a bottle. As a result of the brutal abuse, she suffered a miscarriage.
“The ultrasound showed that I was 2.5-3 months pregnant. There were twins. When I came out of there, one fetus died. I wanted to save the second one, but it didn’t work out,” recalls the victim of torture.
According to her, her husband began to protect not only her, but also their son and brother of the woman who were detained in this case. The man took the blame when they were released.
The woman’s brother Murat Razhapov was detained again ten days later. According to the woman, the police had doubts: how her disabled husband alone could cope with the murdered man, who in the past was a special forces officer, and even had a black belt.
“My husband had a broken femoral neck, he cannot lift more than five kilograms,” the woman told about the state of her husband’s health.
The court accused Nargiza’s brother and husband of murdering the policeman and imposed a severe punishment on them: the first instance gave her husband 17 years, the second – life imprisonment; the first instance gave her brother 7 years, and the second – 12 years.
The woman says that she is unable to prove the innocence of her husband and brother. She even visited the reception of the Prosecutor General and the head of the State Committee for National Security. They promised to look into everything, but did nothing.
Nargiza wants to achieve punishment for her torturers. She says that she is doubly offended to be bullied by those who are much younger than her. According to her, the operatives were not shy in their expressions, using the most humiliating words and insults against her.
The woman accuses them not only of violence, but also of murder.
“They really killed two people, two unborn children,” Razhapova says confidently.
Nargiza appealed to the Prosecutor’s Office and spoke about the torture in the media. However, she was never recognized as a victim in the case of torture. She received a decision to dismiss the case on her complaint of torture on February 10, 2022. Although as it turned out later, it was issued on October 22, 2021.
On February 21, 2022, the investigating judge rejected the lawyers’ request to restore the deadlines for appealing, despite the fact that the deadlines for appealing were missed through no fault of Razhapova and her lawyers. The judge’s decision wasn’t even influenced by the recognition by the investigator and the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office of the fact that the woman received the notification four months later than the deadline established by law.
More than four years have passed since the use of torture. All this time, Nargiza Razhapova and her lawyers have been unsuccessfully trying to get punishment for the police officers who tortured her. Now she has decided to file a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee.
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