Human rights activists handed over $526 (50,000 KGS) to the victim of torture, Ulan Nazaraliev. The court assessed the physical and moral damage caused to a 39-year-old man at exactly this amount.
In November 2012, in the temporary detention center of the Department of Internal Affairs of Jalal-Abad, Nazaraliev was beaten with fists, kicked, strangled. Once, due to a complaint of a headache, the policemen gave him a razor blade with the words that “he can even cut himself, and no one will help him”. Out of desperation, the man cut his hands.
“Nazaraliev was beaten with his head against the wall, kicked in the chest and in the kidneys. Due to bruises in the kidney area, he experienced severe pain and couldn’t urinate. Ulan complained of headaches, nausea, urge to vomit, and emotional instability,” the case file says.
However, based on the results of the prosecutor’s check, the investigator issued a decision to refuse initiating a criminal case, because “the arguments indicated in the complaint were not confirmed” and “there is no corpus delicti in the actions of the police officers of the city of Jalal-Abad”. Nazaraliev filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee.
It took almost 7 years for the UN Committee to issue a positive opinion on this case. The UN Committee issued it on July 5, 2019 as “an ineffective investigation into the facts of torture”. Based on this, on November 11, 2020, the lawyer of the human rights organization “Justice” Sardor Abdukhalilov appealed to the Pervomaiskiy District Court of Bishkek with a demand to recover $31,600 (3 million KGS) from the Ministry of Finance at the expense of the treasury of Kyrgyzstan. But the courts of all three instances estimated the inflicted physical and moral harm at only $526 (50,000 KGS).
Human rights activists, as representatives by proxy, handed over to Nazaraliev the amount transferred from the state.
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