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Bob
03-20-2003, 09:59 AM
Uzbekistan has strongly criticized a UN Human Rights Commission report alleging that authorities in the Central Asian republic regularly use torture.

An advisor to Uzbekistan's ex-Soviet hardline President Islam Karimov says torture is not systemic in Uzbekistan, and the report contains a number of mistakes.

He says the authorities admit serious violations of human rights in detention centres, but are not trying to conceal them.

The UN Commission's investigator of turture allegations, Theo Van Boven, says numerous testimonies show it is systematic.

He says many confessions are obtained through the use of beatings, suffocation, electric shocks and sexual violence.

The United States removed Uzbekistan from a list of countries about which it has serious human rights concerns after Uzbekistan joined the US-led coalition in the war in Afghanistan.

Human rights organizations put the number of political and religious prisoners in this country of 24 million people as high as 7,000.


20/03/2003 10:15:41 | ABC Radio Australia News
trigger-happy
03-20-2003, 10:21 AM
Who can tell if ANYTHING is true? We get information and then using our knowledge of how the world operates and our good judgement, we make the best guess.

We don't know anything about systematic torture if we didn't see it with our own eyes. And those who did sure ain't gonna talk about it. The only thing left for us to do is to make an educated guess. I would venture to guess that torture is rampant in UZ criminal justice system, because I have an idea of how the world operates.
Bob
03-20-2003, 10:47 AM
I have been reading all the news about Uzbekistan for a couple month. 90% of them are about the torture and human rights violations. Unlike other internet users in Uzbekistan, I have an access to any web site. So, I have been able to read all the crap on the news sites about Uzbekistan. Sometimes they kind a make you believe because I have known some stories like they accuse somebody and if he denies the accusation, they bring his wife and begin dressing her off in front of the accused one. Then he have to admit whatever they accuse. How would you feel?
referee
03-21-2003, 04:54 AM
if you want to check those allegations don't go further than your local militsya station! Or if you want to avoid any mishaps happening to you in militsya station, than talk to your friends in MVD they will share with you their everyday experiences which will make you feel sick at once.