DUSHANBE, March 28, 2014, Asia-Plus – Tajik soldier Shahbol Mirzoyev, who was severely beaten by medic Usmon Ghayratov, may be discharged from hospital in a week.
“Physicians say that course of medical treatment has been completed and we have to take him,” Shahbol’s father, Numon Mirzoyev, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
“Shahbol is still paralyzed and I do not know what to do,” said Numon Mirzoyev. “He needs surgery but our doctors cannot perform such a surgery. The surgery is complicated and it could be performed in Germany, Russia or Iran but I do not have money for this.”
Medic of military unit 20/26 deployed in the Roudaki district, Usmon Ghayratov, reportedly severely beat soldier Shahbol Mirzoyev on March 6.
According to Shahbol Mirzoyev, medic Ghayratov together with other medics began to mock at him and beat him up for no reason. “Mostly Ghayratov was beating me up,” Shahbol noted.
As a result of the beating, Shahbol Mirzoyev suffered a broken neck, paralyzed left leg and injured hands.
Shahbol is currently in Qariyai Bolo hospital in Dushanbe. He was taken to the hospital only 15 hours after the incident.
His father, Numon Mirzoyev, says he has sent tomography scan results to one of hospitals in Germany and they said that it is necessary to perform medical surgery that will cost 64,500 Euros.
According to him, he has applied to President Emomali Rahmon with solicitation to take investigation into that incident under his personal control.
Numon Mirzoyev has noted that Usmon Ghayratov allows himself severe treatment of soldiers because his father works at prosecutor’s office.
Meanwhile, the military prosecutor’s office instituted criminal proceedings against Usmon Ghayratov on March 14. The criminal proceedings were instituted under the provisions of Article 373 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code – violation of military regulations; an investigation is under way.
According to some sources, Usmon Ghayratov is the son of the employee of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, Mahmadsharif Ghayratov.
