The initiative group “Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan” disseminated information about the beating of an infirm teenager in the men’s boarding school for disabled people “Muruvvat” in Tashkent. A resident of Samarkand, Rano Kuldasheva, turned to the activists for help. She hadn’t seen her son for three months; and when visiting him on June 25, she saw him very thin and with traces of beatings.
“My son has a very serious diagnosis, he cannot take care of himself, and cannot speak, and cannot walk. I saw him dirty, not well-groomed, weak,” this is how the mother of an 18-year-old teenager describes his condition. “For three months, my son was so exhausted.”
As evidence, she provided human rights defenders (with permission to publish) a photo of Timur before she temporarily placed him in the institution and another one – during a meeting with her child.
Director of the Agency for the Development of Medical and Social Services, which directly subordinates to the Cabinet of Ministers, Alisher Inakov refused to accept Rano’s statement. She directly blames the officials, arguing that “for them it’s all normal – dying disabled people, as many die there, including children”.
An ACCA journalist showed a photograph of Rano’s son to an employee of another similar institution. In the commentary, she noted the difficult working conditions with such people and indirectly confirmed the violence. “Some of them have to be tied up so that they don’t inflict physical harm on themselves. But this thinness is difficult to explain, since there are endless checks on the expenditure of funds,” she said.
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