On August 16, the City Court of Osh questioned two more witnesses – police officers. They deny the fact of beating and torturing a young guy, who after detention by officers of the Department of Internal Affairs of Osh city, relatives found in the morgue.
A trial on the death of a 26-year-old resident of Nookot district, Mohammed Kanibek uulu, continues in Kyrgyzstan. He died a few hours after being detained by officers of the Department of Internal Affairs of Osh region on October 15, 2020. The former six police officers were charged under five articles, including “Torture”, “Causing death by negligence” and others.
Policeman Zh. Masharov brought Muhammed from the Department of Internal Affairs to the ambulance station. According to him, he didn’t see any injury, only a small abrasion on his forehead. Masharov suggested that he had received it during his detention in Kyzyl-Kiya.
Masharov said that the car reached the station in a few minutes. However, it didn’t save the life of the 26-year-old guy.
The another witness, an operational officer with 12 years of work experience at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Osh region, Dinmukhammed Taliev, explained that he had seen the detainee, talked to him for several minutes, saw a wound with clotted blood on his forehead, his hands were handcuffed behind his back. According to Taliev, during the short conversation, the detainee didn’t complain about his health. When the guy got sick, they took off the handcuffs, brought water, brought him to his senses and called 103. Then they took him to the ambulance station. Four officers took him there.
After the interrogation of two witnesses, Dinara Medetova petitioned for the interrogation of other participants in the case – three forensic medical experts. According to the court clerk, one of the three experts didn’t respond to calls and messages. The second is undergoing treatment in Bishkek. And the third one didn’t have a contact phone number in the case file. The judge instructed to send notices to experts to testify in court.
The case will continue on August 23, 2021.
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