DUSHANBE, November 29, 2012, Asia-Plus — The trial has resumed in Dushanbe of an investigator from the police station in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour charged over the death of a detainee.
Bahromiddin Shodiyev died in hospital in later October last year ten days after he was interrogated at the police station in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district.
We will recall that officers from the Shohmansour police station arrested Bahromiddin Shodiyev on October 19 last year on suspicion of theft. The following day, he was taken comatose to the National Medical Center, where he underwent surgery. He died 10 days later.
Police say Shodiyev, who they suspected of having committed a series of thefts, tried to escape by jumping out of a second-floor window during his interrogation at the police station.
His relatives say Bahromiddin Shodiyev died from severe injuries sustained in what they say was a beating at the police station.
According to Bahromiddin’s mother, Niyozbibi Bouriyeva, Bahromiddin told her that police officers severely beat him making him admit to the crimes he did not commit. “He said they used beatings and electric shock to extort confessions,” said she. “He said police taped his mouth shut so no one could hear him screaming. He was practically unconscious when heard that policemen were agreeing that if anything goes wrong they will say that he sustained injuries while jumping out the second-floor window.”
Major Dilovar Murodov, Captain Alisher Inoyatov and Lieutenant Abdurahmon Dodov from the police station in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district were dismissed as a result of the internal investigation into their alleged role in the death of Bahromiddin Shodiyev. Besides, the deputy chief of the Shohmansour police station, Lieutenant-Colonel Ilhomjon Karimov, was dismissed. Shohmansour police station chief, Colonel Safarmad Odinayev, the chief of the investigation department within the Shohmansour police station, Major Abduqodir Nazarov, and his deputy, Senior Lieutenant Bahodur Sodiqov, were reprimanded.
The charge of negligence has been officially brought against Abdurahmon Dodov, an investigator at the Shohmansour police station. Nine months ago the case was remitted for further examination and the trial resumed on November 28 this year.
Lawyer Gulchehra Kholmatova, who represents the injured party in court, says the court yesterday questioned Abdurahmon Dodov and Niyozbibi Bouriyeva. “The next hearing will take place on December 3,” the lawyer said.
