Madiyar Orazbaev died after being beaten and tortured. He was detained on July 3 during protests in Nukus against proposed constitutional changes. This was reported by a source of the independent publication Asiaterra.info.
Madiyar Orazbaev was arrested on July 3 along with his brother and a neighbor named Ruslan. During interrogation, he was severely beaten and kicked below the waist. As a result, he had a rupture of the scrotum and the prisoner was urgently taken to the hospital.
Karakalpak surgeons performed an operation, but they failed to save Madiyar’s life, he died two days later. In peaceful life, Madiyar built mosques in Karakalpakstan and was a colleague and friend of the beaten lawyer and journalist Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov. ACCA previously wrote about him and his colleagues.
Fearing new unrest, the authorities decided to pay off so that Orazbaev’s relatives would not raise a fuss. The street where the deceased lived was immediately asphalted (supposedly everything was for the people), and his parents were offered about $9,000 for silence and humility. However, the deceased’s parents refused the money, demanding that their son’s killers be punished.
Madiyar’s brother was also beaten up. All that is known about him is that in early July, after repeated beatings, he was in a severe condition.
An ACCA source in Nukus confirms the desire of the authorities to “pay off” the wave of popular indignation with money, while at the same time allowing repressions against active participants in the unrest. They are taken out of Karakalpakstan to other regions of the country, where they are “processed” by local guards. Fearing complications, the authorities are urgently transferring servicemen of Karakalpak nationality to another duty station.
Rapists in temporary detention centers and penitentiary institutions are a common phenomenon for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan. One of the ACCA publications mentioned a case of rape. “Torture in the Nukus temporary holding facilities showed the cruelty, ordered by the authorities, of investigators who arrived from other regions in order to intimidate the Karakalpaks for a long time,” the ACCA expert notes.
In the meantime, it became known about the suicide attempt of the prisoner Alisher Yakubov in the penal colony No. 7 in Tavaksai (Tashkent region). The human rights society “Ezgulik” disseminated information that on June 25, 20-year-old native of Namangan region Alisher Yakubov jumped out of the window. Currently, the prisoner is being treated in the medical unit of a specialized colony, popularly called “Sangorod”. According to the medical diagnosis, his state of health is assessed as “moderate”. The Yakubov family claims that Alisher was regularly tortured in the colony, and, unable to endure violence, tried to commit suicide.
In July, ACCA published information about the hunger strike of Sarvar Tashmukhamedov, a prisoner in the same colony. The reason was the beating by police officers in retaliation for communicating with human rights activists.
