Three days on end, friends of the severely beaten blogger Miraziz Bazarov have been summoned for interrogation at the Department of Internal Affairs of Mirabad district of Tashkent. Operatives, without the sanction of the prosecutor, seized the equipment, searched the apartments of the blogger and his mother.
In the last days of March, almost all of Miraziz’s friends were summoned for interrogations in order to convict them of belonging to the LGBT community and identify homosexuals from the social circle. One of the persons, who had visited the District Department of Internal Affairs, told ACCA, “It’s very likely that the security forces have long been compiling a list of potential adherents of the sexual minority.”
For three to four hours, the Interior Ministry officers tried to get people to discredit the blogger and prove that he was gay. There are cases of beatings during interrogations. Photojournalist Timur Karpov confirmed this to the ACCA journalist that he saw how, in order to avoid bruises, they beat one of those, summoned to the police station, with a book.
During a conversation with a journalist of Uzbek service of Radio Liberty, he emphasized that neither the blogger Miraziz Bazarov, nor his friends are LGBT representatives. “I emphasize once again that Bazarov was beaten not because he supported LGBT people, but for his professional activities, for journalistic investigations, for accusing the authorities of theft,” he said.
On March 30, the law enforcement officers took out all the documents and the computer from the apartment where Miraziz lived, without making an inventory of what was seized. The next day, his mother’s home was also searched without the permission of the prosecutor.
When analyzing the actions of the National Guard and the officers of the Interior Ministry of Tashkent during the mass demonstration of young Muslims on March 28, it becomes clear that it was not spontaneous, but well-organized.
As it became known now, on that day, a dozen guys still beat a guy and a girl (this was previously denied), mistaking them for LGBT activists, and a little later three unknown persons injured Miraziz Bazarov as if for the edification of his followers. It’s possible to find masked people simply if there are cameras on the roads, since the attackers escorted an ambulance with a beaten blogger to the hospital in their car.
The authorities, through the media and controlled bloggers, instill in the population the danger of youth subcultures incompatible with the so-called national values. The online edition Kun.uz reported in January that about 50 thousand young people were interviewed in the capital and six regions of the country. The President Mirziyoev unexpectedly reacted to the polls this way.
“Based on suggestions and wishes, youth programs have been approved in regions and cities. The State Security Service is entrusted with the task of implementing these programs, as well as systematically studying the social problems of young people,” he said.
The President emphasized that, given the importance of the task, the State Security Service would monitor the implementation of the programs.
“The secret service employees will assist and, if necessary, will force the responsible persons to fulfill the assigned task,” he concluded.
Thus, one task has been implemented: young people with modern thinking are being driven into the digital and real underground with the help of their religious peers.
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