Uzbekistan: Officers of the Internal Affairs Department forced the deputy to participate in the meeting
On February 14, employees of the Department of Internal Affairs of Andijan district forcibly forced a deputy of the local council, Sardor Kasymov, to participate in the meeting. This was reported on the Telegram channel Soyadagi siyosatchilar (Politicians in the shadow).
The information was confirmed by the deputy of the Legislative Chamber of the Uzbek Parliament Rasul Kusherbayev. He wrote in his post that the event was led by the hokim of Andijan region Shukhrat Abdurakhmonov. According to him, the head of the region deprived some of the deputies of their powers and was looking for those who didn’t appear at the meeting of the most active members.
He ordered the officers of the Department of Internal Affairs to find Kasymov, who was found in his parents’ house. Accompanied by a detachment of law enforcement officers, he went under escort to the meeting. After his departure, the deputy’s mother experienced a nervous shock and a hypertensive crisis.
“The obligatory presence of deputies at the meeting of the executive branch is nowhere indicated,” expert Kusherbayev notes. “Therefore, as long as the feudal hokims, who don’t recognize the law, lead the kengashes (councils), such shameful situations will continue, and it will be a dream for us to build a strong civil society.”
The ACCA expert noted the regularity of the appearance of negativity from Andijan region in the information space of the country.
“The problems of the entire socio-economic spectrum, inherent in Uzbekistan, are manifested in the region. If the deputies succumb to the arbitrariness of the executive power, then the employees of budgetary organizations are simply helpless in front of the thieving authoritarian vertical line of power.”
ACCA previously wrote that during the investigation the amount of embezzlement in the Department of Public Education of Andijan increased to 57 billion sums ($5,253,000).
