E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.2 page 27 Appendix II INDIVIDUAL CASES* Sadik Khamidov was reportedly visited by an investigator at 11 p.m. on 27 May 1992, who asked his mother to wake him up and asked him questions about one of his friends, who had drowned in the canal. After a couple of minutes, he left and reportedly came back with four or five people, stating he had forgotten something. At that point, it is reported that Sadik Khamidov was arrested. The next morning, his mother went to see the investigator at the Namangan city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), who reportedly told her that everything was fine. His mother reportedly found out later, that he had been severely beaten and that his clothes were soaked in blood. In August, she was reportedly allowed to see her son in the Tashbulak SIZO in Namangan. He was said to have been covered in bruises. In the detention centre, he had reportedly been given electric shocks and had been kept in cold water for eight days. He reportedly told his mother that the case against him had been fabricated. When his mother complained about the treatment her son had allegedly been subjected to to the prison authorities, they reportedly stopped her from seeing him. During the trial in December, Sadik Khamidov reportedly told the judge that he had been tortured; however the judge allegedly accused him of lying. A lawyer also raised the allegations of torture and stated that the confessions had been extracted under torture, but was reportedly ignored. After the hearing, Sadik Khamidov was said to have been threatened not to talk about the torture, and again placed in cold water for having raised the torture allegations in court. At the trial, he was subsequently sentenced to death, and the two other accused to 20 years’ imprisonment, for the murder of a police officer and a guard at a canal. About three years later, the corpses of the co-defendants were returned to their families, having died of tuberculosis at a medical facility in Touluk. In 1992, Sadik Khamidov’s mother appealed the verdict and met with the head of the Supreme Court, informing him that she had had no further information from her son after his transfer from Namangan. She furthermore raised allegations of torture, but these were reportedly ignored by the judge. When she wrote to Namangan city court, she was reportedly told that they had sent her the letter that her son had already been executed. In 1996, she had received a verbal message from someone who had visited Karshi, that her son was still alive. She is said to have visited Karshi several times, but the authorities reportedly told her that they had no one there of this name and they could not give out information. His mother is said to have visited all detention centres, and had sent letters to the Supreme Court and other courts, and four letters to the President of the Republic to find out whether her son has been executed. She reportedly received a letter from the Supreme Court stating that the verdict remained in force. Abdurahim Turgunov was reportedly arrested on 12 April 1995 at his home in Namangan. Twelve police officers are said to have burst into the house, two of which held his wife at the door and the others woke up her husband and led him away. The other officers are said to have searched the house. Fifteen days later, the 15 officers are said to have come back and to have searched the three-room house for six hours. One police officer is said to have placed something into a container in the basement. According to the information received, the authorities subsequently claimed that they had found five pieces of a gun in the basement, and a video of the house was made. For seven months, his wife did not know about her husband’s * For ease of reference, the following summaries are presented in chronological order.