Torture and Ill-treatment in Uzbekistan
This 90-page report documents widespread torture that goes largely unpunished. The report finds that torture and ill-treatment are ignored and overlooked by investigators, prosecutors, and judges, and generally hushed up by the media and the government.
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ISBN: D1906
ISBN: D1906
- Nowhere to Turn
- Summary
- Methodology
- Background
- Pre-trial Detention
- Trial
- Monitoring Post-conviction Detention
- Accountability for Torturers
- Recommendations
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix I. A Note on the Case of Andrei Shelkovenko
- Appendix II. Letter to the Office of the Ombudsman of Uzbekistan
- Appendix III. Reply from the Office of the Ombudsman
- Appendix IV. Letter to Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan
- Appendix V. Reply from Prosecutor General's Office
- [4] For more detail see International Crisis Group, Asia Briefing N67, 22 August 2007, "Uzbekistan: Stagnation and Uncertainty," http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5027&l=1, accessed October 9, 2007.
- [52]Human Rights Watch interview with Sevara S., July 15, 2006. In November 2005 at least nine Uzbek nationals seeking refuge from religious persecution were forcibly returned from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan with any legal process. The governments of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have denied that the men were detained in Kazakhstan, though eyewitness testimony given to Human Rights Watch confirms that they were initially detained in Kazakhstan. For more details see: Letter from Human Rights Watch to Nursultan Nazarbaev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, "Letter Details Kazakh Involvement in Forced Return of Uzbeks", March 28, 2006, http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/29/kazakh13092.htm and "Kazakhstan: Investigate Forced Return of Uzbeks", Human Rights Watch news release, March 29, 2006, http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/29/kazakh13093.htm.
