The Prosecutor General’s Office distributed statistical data on the fight against torture from January to August this year.
On September 21, Talibjon Umarov, head of the Department, reported at a briefing about 126 complaints from citizens about torture by law enforcement agencies. He stated that after reviewing them, only four cases had been confirmed.
The leader of the initiative human rights group, Klara Sakharova, in her comment on Umarov’s words, noted to the ACCA journalist that ‘the given data is false’. As a result of alternative monitoring of the violation of the rights of prisoners, human rights activists uncovered numerous facts of bullying in penitentiary institutions. In August, they recorded two suicide attempts by prisoners.
ACCA confirms the conclusions of the activists by regularly publishing a chronicle of reprisals by law enforcement agencies. The most revealing evidence was the death from beatings and torture of Madiyar Orazbaev. He was detained on July 3 in Nukus during protests against proposed constitutional changes. His brother and neighbor also got into the cell. During interrogation, Madiyar was severely beaten, 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.
