Case KGZ 120906.1 VAW
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Torture and ill-treatment by a State agent resulting in end of pregnancy/ Impunity/
Police surveillance/ Internment in a psychiatric hospital
Geneva, 12 December 2006.
The International Secretariat of OMCT has received new information and requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in Kyrgyzstan.
The International Secretariat of OMCT has received new information from the Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights (KCHR), a member of the SOS-Torture Network, regarding to the case of Ms. Rukiya Ibragimova, arrested and subjected to torture by a policeman on 20 July and 26 August 2006 in Jalal-Abad.
According to the information received, Ms. Ibragimova is still under police surveillance at the Kyzyl-Jar Hospital and accused of “concealment of a terrorist”. However, she still has not had access to legal counselling and she has not received adequate medical treatment after the beatings inflicted on her and the loss of her baby.
Moreover, she is considered by the Kyrgyz authorities as insane and on this basis she has not been allowed to lodge any complaint regarding the acts torture and ill-treatment inflicted by the chief of the Regional Department of Internal Affairs, Mr. Kubanychbek Torobaev, during the time of her arrest and at the Kyzyl-Jar Hospital.
OMCT is gravely concerned by the physical and psychological condition of Ms Rukiya Ibragimova as well as the lack of consideration of her case by the Kyrgyz authorities.
On 20 July 2006, Ms. Rukiya Ibragimova, 20 years old and 10 weeks pregnant, was arrested at the Isolation Ward of Temporary Allowance (IVS) of Jalal-Abad. She was reportedly beaten by a police officer, Kubanychbek Torobaev, in order to force her to denounce her husband, Mr. Djamaliddin Abderashitov, suspected of involvement with an extremist organisation called “Islamic movements of Uzbekistan”.
Ms. Ibragimova was subsequently taken to the Kyzyl-Jar psychiatric hospital, where she was once again severely beaten on the 26 August 2006 by Kubanychbek Torobaev. She was immediately transferred to the gynaecologic department of the Tash-Kumyr city hospital. There, the doctors certified that her foetus was dead.
It is worth noting that her husband, Mr. Djamaliddin Abderashitov, surrendered to the police immediately after he learned that his wife had been tortured.
Please continue to write to the authorities in Kyrgyzstan urging them to:
Please also write to the embassies of Kyrgyzstan in your respective country.
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Geneva, 12 December 2006.
Kindly inform us of any action undertaken quoting the code of this appeal in your reply.
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