This became known from the official letter of the journalist sent to the lawyer in Kyrgyzstan Natalya Kotik. On August 26, the lawyer of the journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev, whom Kyrgyzstan handed over to Uzbekistan, at the request received a letter from her client, in which he claims that the officers of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan used torture against him.
“On the evening of August 11, after returning from the office of the senior investigator Ravshan Tokonov, several employees of the SCNS pretrial detention center (the officer on duty, the senior officer on duty and others – I don’t know their names and last names) began to demand that I sign a Resolution on the extradition of the citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdullaev Bobomurod Kodirovich to authorities of Uzbekistan, signed on August 11 by one of the Deputy Prosecutor General. When I refused to get acquainted with this document and sign it in the absence of my lawyers, the employees of the pretrial facility entered my cell and began to threaten me with reprisals. One of them put me on a bunk (iron bed) and began to choke me with a green towel. Unable to withstand the suffocation, I leaned back and fell to the floor, with my left hand and right eyebrow hitting the corners of the iron bunk. I got cuts on my left arm and right eyebrow. When blood began to flow all over my face, the workers quickly left my cell and locked the doors. I still have scars on my left arm and right eyebrow from this injury. I still didn’t sign this document ”, – from the letter of Abdullayev.
According to state lawyer Timur Karabayev, Bobomurod Abdullayev, in a letter, he also asked them to continue protecting his interests in Kyrgyzstan and to bring those responsible to justice.
“For our part, we have already sent a statement to the Prosecutor General’s Office and published the full text of Abdullaev’s letter in the media, signing that the publication can be considered an official appeal to the authorities,” Karabaev told ACCA.
Timur Karabaev emphasized that by forcing the journalist to sign a decree on his extradition, they deprived him of the right to appeal against the court verdict.
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