Uzbek Man Dies in Police Custody

[Judi Lynn]

Uzbek Man Dies in Police Custody


By AZIZ NURITOV
Associated Press Writer

May 21, 2004, 4:50 AM EDT


TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- An Uzbek man has died in police custody from apparent torture, the latest victim of Uzbekistan's abusive justice system, an international rights group said Friday.

Andrei Shelkavenko, 36, died on Tuesday in a detention center in the town of Cazalkent, 30 miles northeast of the capital Tashkent, three weeks after his arrest on suspicion of murder, Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
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Authorities said Shelkavenko died on the way to hospital after attempting to hang himself in his cell.

Uzbekistan has long faced international criticism for its human rights record, which includes allegations of torture and killings in prisons. But the United States has increased aid to the country since it allowed the U.S. military to set up a base on its territory after the Sept. 11 attacks to back the anti-terror campaign in nearby Afghanistan.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-uzbekistan-torture-death,0,7247389.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines


President Islam Karimov with pResident _{George Bush}

http://www.thenausea.com/elements/uzbekistan/tortures.html

[spooked]

1. PLEASE post photos like that with a warning link....

OMG When is someone going to put a stop to this torture?

Without a doubt if the concentration camps were happening today, we would all be sitting around doing NOTHING about it!

[Disturbed]

2. Bushco friends

Most likley few people would do much about anything.
The Red Cross and Amnesty Intl. and other groups have been reporting
about the tortures for over a year. Until the photos came out no one did much about it. Some in the US still shrug.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I thought it was important that people know Bush knew this was going on

in Uzbekistan, and STILL decided to do business with them, as is.

The idea is to focus seriously on _Bush's actions.

[0007]

5. Your absolutely right posting photos that depict our ignorance

"The memorandum, addressed to William J. Haynes, the Pentagon's general counsel, said that President Bush could argue that the Taliban government in Afghanistan was a "failed state" and therefore its soldiers were not entitled to protections accorded in the conventions. If Mr. Bush did not want to do that, the memorandum gave other grounds, like asserting that the Taliban was a terrorist group. It also noted that the president could just say that he was suspending the Geneva Conventions for a particular conflict."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/politics/21MEMO.html?pagewanted=1

Let keep the heat on junior folks.

[0007]

4. More photo coming up folks........

"A U.N. report said torture was systematic in Uzbekistan's prisons. The government claims it is trying to end the practice of torture in prisons. But its so-called action plan against torture has been repeatedly delayed and hasn't yet been published.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I44079-2004May20L
There's that orange suit again and a busy little worker

[Judi Lynn]

6. Busy is right, 0007. An MP's work is never done at Abu-Ghraib....

That looks EXACTLY like the incident we read about when one of the guards testified Englund's boyfriend cradled one of the prisoner's head in his arm, and slugged him in the temple, knocking him out.

We saw that pile of prisoners in the first release, without the hard working MP. They were just lying there. Looks as if he could have knocked them all out just for the fun of it.