Uzbekistan: Police torture Christian men on account of faith

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"The Police knows his car, and the licence plate, and seemingly they were informed about their arrival in town, and were waiting for them there."

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: Forum 18 News Service
By Mushfig Bayram | June 4, 2015

Officers at Karmana District Police Station, among them Feruz Ruziyev, tortured Murot Turdiyev until he lost consciousness, while another fellow-Protestant was threatened with rape, Protestants complained to Forum 18 News Service.

The two were among four Protestant men stopped at a traffic checkpoint.

"The Police knows his car, and the licence plate, and seemingly they were informed about their arrival in town, and were waiting for them there," one Protestant told Forum 18.

When Forum 18 asked why he had beaten Turdiyev, Officer Ruziyev immediately put the phone down. Gofur Namozov, Chief of Karmana Criminal Police, adamantly denied to Forum 18 that any of the four had been beaten and tortured.

"We only questioned them about the many visas and foreign stamps in their passports," he claimed.

Administrative cases against the four appear to have been handed to court.

Meanwhile police and other officials went almost daily in May to the Karshi home of Guljahon Kuzebayeva, banging on the gates of the yard "like hooligans" and trying to climb over the wall. She has been in hiding since July 2014 to evade arrest for her religious activity.


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