TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Police officers assaulted a woman at her home while her parents were being interrogated at the local police station about their religious activity. Officers “kicked the woman and hit her on the head, giving her a severe concussion.” Police refused to discuss the incident.
A Tashkent police officer threatened to kill local Protestant Anvar Rajapov if he continued to challenge a fine of 80 times the minimum monthly wage handed down to punish him for his religious activity. “I have prepared an axe for you, which will be flying after you, observing you and if need be, kill you,” sources quoted Maj. Zufar Rashidov as telling him. Police refused to discuss the threats.
Tashkent investigator Aleksandr Ten threatened the son of a Baptist church member that he would “beat him up and put him in prison for three months” if he did not sign statements against the church’s pastor and bookkeeper who Ten is seeking to prosecute.
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