Interior Minister Pulat Babadjanov only reprimanded the head of the Department’s press service, Shokhrukh Giesov. As the ACCA previously wrote, he spoke of the victims of torture in law enforcement agencies as “god damned people”, drunkards and hooligans.
In an interview with the correspondent of the online media Effect.uz, Giesov said that his words were considered at a disciplinary meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after which the minister made a decision.
In an unofficial statement to journalists, he commented on the deaths after beatings of Nursoat Mukhammadiev from Kashkadarya region, Khasan Khushmatov from Surkhandarya region and Bakhtiyar Dauletmuratov from Karakalpakstan.
The head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Shokhrukh Giesov, then effectively removed the blame from the preventive maintenance inspectors and their assistants, who were caught in the beatings. “With his reprimand, the minister essentially defended his subordinate, fully sharing his point of view,” the ACCA expert is sure. “There are probably more cases of beatings and even death, but only a few become known through messages on social networks.”
This is indirectly confirmed by the press secretary himself with his use of misanthropic rhetoric. In January 2020, after another tragedy with torture in the Department of Internal Affairs of Chirakchi district (Kashkadarya region), information about which was published by ACCA, Giesov said that “the death of a person in the Department is not news, it is natural, it happened before”.
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