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Saturday, 20 August 2005

UZBEK PROSECUTORS DENY SUSPECT HAS DIED UNDER TORTURE

Published in News Digest

By empty (8/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Uzbek Prosecutor General\'s Office on Saturday denied a report that one of the four men who fled to Kyrgyzstan after May\'s riots in the Uzbek city of Andizhan but have later come back to Uzbekistan died under torture. All four \"are charged with direct participation in the attacks on the buildings of the regional administration and law and order [agencies] and on a military base, with killing hostages and civilians, and with hijacking cars,\" Svetlana Artykova, spokeswoman for the office, told Interfax. She said the four former refugees were currently in preventive detention.
The Uzbek Prosecutor General\'s Office on Saturday denied a report that one of the four men who fled to Kyrgyzstan after May\'s riots in the Uzbek city of Andizhan but have later come back to Uzbekistan died under torture. All four \"are charged with direct participation in the attacks on the buildings of the regional administration and law and order [agencies] and on a military base, with killing hostages and civilians, and with hijacking cars,\" Svetlana Artykova, spokeswoman for the office, told Interfax. She said the four former refugees were currently in preventive detention. Artykova said that the four men had returned to Uzbekistan voluntarily and turned themselves in. \"Evidence of the voluntary return of these people is a reply from the Kyrgyz Prosecutor General\'s Office dated July 5 of this year that no consideration had been given to the demands of the Uzbek Prosecutor General\'s Office to extradite these people as they had returned to Uzbekistan voluntarily,\" Artykova said. (Interfax)
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