DUSHANBE, April 3, 2012, Asia-Plus — Savrinisso Gulova, the widow of Ismoil Bachajonov, who died in mysterious circumstances in pretrial facility after being beaten, demands more than 655,000 somoni (equal to 105,000 euros) in compensation for survivor’s loss.
Abdurahmon Sharipov, the defense lawyer of the aggrieved party, says she has already lodged an appropriate application to a court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district. “The respondent is the Main Directorate for Execution of Punishments under the Ministry of Justice and the third party is the Ministry of Finance,” the lawyer said.
Ismoil Bachajonov, 32, was sentenced to 6½ years in prison in 2009 for drug trafficking. He was serving his term in a medium-security penal colony but in 2011 the medium-security regime was reportedly changed to the prison regime for systematic violation of regime of serving his sentence. He was taken to Dushanbe’s pretrial detention facility for further transportation under guard to the prison, where he died in June 2011 after reportedly being beaten.
The Prosecutor-General’s Office launched an investigation into the death of Bachajonov under the provisions of Article 110 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code – deliberate infliction of serious bodily injury. Under this article, a beating with a lethal outcome is punishable by five to eleven years in jail.
Three officers from the pretrial facility were detained for involvement in that incident and they were sentenced to various jail terms.
Ukrainian specialist in psychology, Ms. Yelena Volochai, who examined Savrinisso Gulova, told Asia-Plus by phone that a serious psychological injury was inflicted upon Gulova. According to her, Savrinisso Gulova and her three underage children need long-term individual non-medical psychotherapy to overcome the stress effects. “Besides, treatment at the health resort is needed and Gulova is recommended to participate in education improvement and poverty overcoming programs,” said Volochai. “And her children are needed social patronage until majority.”
The market price of the minimum complex of the necessary correction measures for Gulova and her three underage children is reportedly 105,000 euros.
