Five human rights activists came out with posters to the building of the Main Department of Punishment under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The initiator was the women’s human rights initiative group.
For two minutes, the activists held posters with the inscriptions: “КИН 42 free settlement turned into a cemetery of human dignity!”, “Hands off the rights of prisoners”, “Employees of General Directorate for the Execution of Sentences! Torture and cruel treatment of prisoners make you criminals. Observe the Law and the Constitution!”
Employees of the Department did not expect such stability and did not dare to stop the action by force. After that, the complaints of persistent human rights activists were heard by Deputy Minister Bakhrombek Adilov.
One of the petitions described the innovation in the penal colony No.7. According to the volunteer Gulbahor Karimbekova, the novation of those responsible for the regime consisted in water procedures, when prisoners are squatted for hours in the rain.
“The clothes get wet, and does not have time to dry. Wet clothes stink in the barracks. Squatting legs become numb when you sit for hours. And also, when the detachment is leading to the buildings, the prisoners shout “Assalom aleykum!”. And it goes on for hours,” confirms group leader Tatyana Dovlatova.
Almost all the problems of the prisoners, for which the activists worried, were solved in minutes by telephone conversations between the deputy minister and his subordinates.
The human rights defenders were guaranteed that next year all employees of the escort service and the administrations of the penitentiary institutions would be obligated to wear badge with name.
Two months ago, the group had already sent unanswered proposals to the Ministry for the humanization of prisoners’ keeping. On December 12, former political prisoner Agzam Turgunov with Tatyana Dovlatova wrote a letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights asking them to be included in groups to monitor the situation of prisoners in the country. ACCA published information that this year the official structures conducted 300 control inspections, on the results of which there is no information.
After the meeting, encouraged by the deputy minister, human rights activists visited the Prosecutor’s office in Zangiata district of Tashkent region, where they left another complaint from a relative of the prisoner. The human rights marathon for human rights defenders ended in КИН-42, where they dealt with the theft of personal property from prisoners.
On December 21, Gulbakhor Karimbekova decided on a single flash mob with a poster in this colony, but the administration quickly interrupted the action.
The action with posters is already the third for this month. On December 15, 2019, the leader of the human rights alliance, Elena Urlaeva, and her associates went into the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that was not guarded at that time and hung up posters on the walls.
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