From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2000 - 14:50:21 EST
To your attention is some information on a human rights related case from
Uzbekistan
Vassiliy Evstigneev (brother of Elena Urlaeva) sentenced to six years of
imprisonment by the Mirza Ulugbek district court of Tashkent on grounds of a
fabricated case in April 2000 and who has been in the "red zone" UA 64/49 in
town of Karshi was moved in the end of October to a medical penitential
facility located in Tashkent in a grave condition. His relatives have come
to know that Vassiliy has continuous hemorrhage of his rectum. It is common
knowledge that investigation officers and butchers of "red zones" often
practice a torture, which is to insert a bottle into a victim's rectum.
Everybody is sure that Vassily has undergone this particular torture.
Last time when Elena Urlaeva visited her brother was in June. Although he
was considerably emaciated he looked healthy. During the meeting with his
sister Vassiliy said that he had been unmercifully beaten and tortured and
he expressed his opinion that it had been done for the reason of his sister
(i.e. E. Urlaeva) involved in human rights activities. On 6 of November 2000
the manager of the medical facility did not permit relatives of V.
Evstigneev to see him.
In the early November a man, who introduced himself as a tax inspection
officer handed over a message to Iskandar Hudaiberganov's sister-in-law
saying that I. Hudaiberganov should come to the tax department of the
Yunusabad district of Tashkent. When asked: "For what purpose does the tax
department want to see Mr. Hudaiberganov?" the tax inspection officer
informed that Hudaiberganov had allegedly smuggled some black caviar and
cigarettes across the border with Kazakhstan. Thus his sister might be
accused of the involvement of her brother in human rights activities as part
of HRSU.
Yours sincerely
R. Dyryldaev
Chairman of the Kyrgyz Committee
for Human Rights in exile
c/o IHF
Austria, Vienna
A- 1080 Wickenburgg. 14/7
tel: 43 1 408 88 22; 43 1 956 58 94; Fax+43 1 408 88 22-50
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