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Distorted Justice
Kyrgyzstan’s Flawed Investigations and Trials on the 2010 Violence
Summary
Recommendations
To the
Government of Kyrgyzstan
To the
General Prosecutor’s Office
To the Ministry
of Internal Affairs
To the
Kyrgyz Parliament
To
Kyrgyzstan’s International Partners
Methodology
I.
Background
June 2010
Inter-Ethnic Clashes in the South
Violence
Strikes
II.
Kyrgyzstan’s Obligations and Record on Torture and Ill-Treatment
Kyrgyzstan’s
International Obligations
Domestic Law
and its Shortcomings
Kyrgyzstan’s
Record
III.
Arbitrary Arrests, Ill-treatment, and Torture
Immediately
After June Events
Continued
Use of Torture
Denial of
Due Process Guarantees
Enforced
Disappearances and Incommunicado Detention
Denial of
Adequate Legal Representation
IV. Impunity
for Torture and Ill-Treatment
Inadequate
Preliminary Inquiries
Pressuring
Victims to Withdraw Complaints
Failure to
Act on Information and Allegations of Torture
Use of
Statements Extracted under Torture
Confessions
Given Undue Weight
V.
Violations during Trials
Attacks on
Participants in Trials
Role of the
Authorities
Impact on
Fair Trial Rights
VI. Unequal
Access to Justice
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1:
Selected Cases
Appendix 2:
Attacks during Trial
Appendix 3:
Correspondence between Human Rights Watch and the Government of Kyrgyzstan
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