Although it is important to provide as much detail as possible, the lack of a comprehensive accounting should not necessarily preclude the submission of reports. However, the Special Rapporteur can only deal with clearly identified individual cases containing the following minimum elements of information:

To be completed by persons alleging torture or their representatives

Information on the torture of a person should be transmitted to the Special Rapporteur in written form and sent to:

 

Special Rapporteur on Torture
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights United Nations Office at Geneva
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
E-mail:urgent-action@ohchr.org

Representative Office of the High Commissioner
for Refugees in the Russian Federation
125009 Moscow, Leontevski per. d.9
Tel. (495) 660-09-01
Fax. (495) 660-09-04/06
E-mail:RUSMO@unhcr.org

June 13th, 2014

Although it is important to provide as much detail as possible, the lack of a comprehensive accounting should not necessarily preclude the submission of reports. However, the Special Rapporteur can only deal with clearly identified individual cases containing the following minimum elements of information:

a. Full name of the victim: Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev – a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a well-known movie producer and businessman in Uzbekistan, has been living in Moscow, Russia and seeking for a political asylum in protection of persecution, torture, similar ill-treatment and lengthy imprisonment under trumped up politically motivated criminal case. In May 2014 Zamoskovoretski district court of Moscow city has granted his asylum application and recognized him as a temporary refugee in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Eleanora Isaeva – Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev’s wife.

Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev’s and Eleanora Isaeva’s 8-month old child.

b. Date on which the incident(s) of torture occurred (at least as to the month and year): We don’t know yet if the incident of torture or similar ill-treatment occurred against Mr.Misrobir Hamidkoriev but our many years of experience shows that at present he must be under a serious risk of being subjected to torture and ill-treatment by the Uzbek law enforcement and secret service officers. Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev was kidnapped by unknown men in the street in the evening of June 9th, 2014 in Moscow. Coming from our experience with numerous similar cases we have valid grounds to conclude that Mr.Hamidkoriev was kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services with the assistance and support of the Russian secret services.

The Uzbek Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case against Mr.Hamidkoriev on January 3, 2011 in his absentia accusing him, as usual in similar cases, of religious extremism and terrorism – at that point Mr.Hamidkoriev has already left Uzbekistan because of the fear of persecutions, attempts of suicide, threats on his personal security and life and trumped up criminal charges. Mr.Hamidkoriev has since been on the wanted list of the Uzbek authorities. In July 2013 the Uzbek authorities have attempted to convince the Russian counterparts to extradite Mr. Hamidkoriev. Mr.Hamidkoriev spent several months in a detention center in Moscow awaiting a decision of the Russian authorities on the Uzbek extradition request but eventually on August 7th Golovinskaya inter-district Public Prosecutor’s Office of Moscow passed a decision that there were not valid grounds for Mr.Hamidkoriev’s extradition to Uzbekistan.

We are afraid that Mr.Hamidkoriev has already been taken to Uzbekistan by the Uzbek secret services or he will be taken away very soon after he was kidnapped. Our practice shows that in similar cases the kidnapped asylum seekers from Uzbekistan have usually been kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services on the days of direct flights from the Russian cities to Uzbekistan so that they can be immediately taken back to Uzbekistan and put into custody. We believe this is a case with Mr. Hamidkoriev as well. In any event Mr. Hamidkoriev is under a serious threat of torture and similar ill-treatment in the hands of the Uzbek law enforcement and secret services.

We have got evidence which proves that Mr.Hamidkoriev was kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services with support of their Russian counterparts. Just today on June 13th, 2014 Mr. Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva sent from her mobile phone +7 (968) 739-03-38 (a Russian mobile phone operator) a short text message to Mrs.Mutabar Tadjibayeva – a founder and president of International Human Rights Association “Fiery Hearts Club”, the author of this communication, asking her to urgently call her back. When Mrs.Mutabar Tadjibayeva called her back Eleanora Isaeva just managed to tell her that she was also kidnapped by unknown men and forcedly brought back in a direct flight from Moscow to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and has been held in a locked apartment alone.

She doesn’t manage to report any names, address where she is held if she knows such details because the phone call was suddenly interrupted and Mrs.Tadjibayeva couldn’t reach her again. We believe Mrs.Eleanora Isaeva was kidnapped and taken back to Tashkent by the Uzbek secret services as well in order to compel her husband to provide necessary self-incriminating testimonies and plead guilty. It is not rare when the accused in such cases are threatened by the Uzbek secret services by detention and rape of their women relatives, including wives and daughters in their presence if the accused refuse to plead guilty. We also believe that Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva also faces torture and similar ill-treatment.

c. Place where the person was seized (city, province, etc.) and location at which the torture was carried out (if known): Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev was kidnapped near “Stariy Lekar” drugstore in Chapligina street of Moscow city, the Russian Federation on June 9th in the evening. Mrs.Eleanora Isaeva, Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife, was also kidnapped in Moscow by the Uzbek secret services and taken back to Tashkent where she is held incommunicado in a locked apartment. Both Mr.Hamidkoriev and Mrs.Isaeva face serious threats of torture and similar ill-treatment in the hands of the Uzbek secret services.

d. Indication of the forces carrying out the torture: Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev, his wife Eleanora Isaeva and 8-month old child were hiding away for the last several months in different places of Moscow living in temporarily rented apartments because Mr.Hamidkoriev was afraid of being detained or kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services and taken back to Uzbekistan. Mr.Hamidkoriev was invited to Zamoskovoretskiy district court of Moscow city on June 12th for receiving an official decision of the court on granting his asylum application. On the day of kidnapping Mr.Hamidkoriev’s child were not feeling good and the couple called a taxi to visit the drug store and buy some medicines for the child. When they called a taxi Mr.Hamidkoriev’s Moscow friend named Ilya was at their apartment. The taxi arrived, the driver was a young man who introduced himself as “Nikolay” and his car was “Lada-Priora”.

The couple and their child got into the taxi, when Mr.Hamidkoriev’s friend Ilya was also planning to join them, the taxi driver has refused to let him into the car saying he will provide taxi services only to the person who has called for a taxi service. The couple left Ilya and got into the taxi. They asked the taxi to stop at the closest drugstore on their way. The taxi driver stopped the car near “Stariy Lekar” drugstore in Chapligina street in Moscow. Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife with an infant child in her hands went into the drugstore to buy medicines and Mr.Hamidkoriev remained in the car.

Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife came out of the drugstore in about 5 minutes and didn’t find the taxi car and her husband in the street. She started calling on his mobile phone number but it was turned off. She didn’t know what to do and started asking about her husband and the taxi car from the people in the street. One of the eyewitnesses, a middle-aged Russian woman who was walking with her dog in the street told her that two young men of athletic forms approached the car from two sides and entered into the car from the back seats taking Mr.Hamidkoriev in the middle, and the car immediately left the place to the direction of Chistoprudniy boulevard of Moscow city.

We believe it was the Uzbek secret services with the support of their Russian counterparts who have kidnapped Mr.Hamidkoriev. We don’t know yet if the incident of torture or similar ill-treatment occurred against Mr.Misrobir Hamidkoriev but our many years of experience shows that at present he must be under a serious risk of being subjected to torture and ill-treatment by the Uzbek law enforcement and secret service officers. We are afraid that Mr.Hamidkoriev has already been taken to Uzbekistan by the Uzbek secret services or he will be taken away very soon after he was kidnapped. Our practice shows that in similar cases the kidnapped asylum seekers from Uzbekistan have usually been kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services on the days of direct flights from the Russian cities to Uzbekistan so that they can be immediately taken back to Uzbekistan and put into custody.

We believe this is a case with Mr.Hamidkoriev as well. In any event Mr.Hamidkoriev is under a serious threat of torture and similar ill-treatment in the hands of the Uzbek law enforcement and secret services. As monitoring of independent observers and human rights activists demonstrate in most cases the kidnapped or extradited Uzbek asylum seekers are held incommunicado in the hands of the Uzbek secret services for many months until they are coerced to provide self-incriminating testimonies as a result of torture and similar ill-treatment.

Just today on June 13th, 2014 Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva sent from her mobile phone +7 (968) 739-03-38 (a Russian mobile phone operator) a short text message to Mrs.Mutabar Tadjibayeva – a founder and president of International Human Rights Association “Fiery Hearts Club”, the author of this communication, asking her to urgently call her back. When Mrs.Mutabar Tadjibayeva called her back Eleanora Isaeva just managed to tell her that she was also kidnapped by unknown men and forcedly brought back in a direct flight from Moscow to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and has been held in a locked apartment alone. She doesn’t manage to report any names, address where she is held if she knows such details because the phone call was suddenly interrupted and Mrs.Tadjibayeva couldn’t reach her again.

We believe Mrs.Eleanora Isaeva was kidnapped and taken back to Tashkent by the Uzbek secret services as well in order to compel her husband to provide necessary self-incriminating testimonies and plead guilty. It is not rare when the accused in such cases are threatened by the Uzbek secret services by detention and rape of their women relatives, including wives and daughters in their presence if the accused refuse to plead guilty. We also believe that Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva also faces torture and similar ill-treatment. Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva is a citizen of Uzbekistan. Before leaving Uzbekistan with her husband she has worked as a ballet master for famous Uzbek pop singer Yulduz Usmonova. Mr.Hamidkoriev and Mrs.Eleanora Isaeva are not married legally.

We should also mention that Ilya (we don’t know the family name of that person – Mr.Hamidkoriev’s friend who was at Mr.Hamidkoriev’s apartment when the taxi car came has also been unavailable on his mobile phone since two days. We are afraid that Ilya might also have been kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services and taken back to Uzbekistan. He was the first person who reported Hamidkoriev’s kidnapping to our organization. Ilya is also a citizen of Uzbekistan and he has been living and working in Russia as a labor migrant for the last several years. Both Ilya and Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva have been speaking out a lot to the mass media and human rights NGOs on Hamidkoriev’s case and we think this is one of the reasons why they might also be targeted by the Uzbek secret services.

We should also specifically mention the cases of torture and similar ill-treatment against those Uzbek asylum seekers who are detained abroad on the extradition requests of the Uzbekistani law enforcement agencies and sent back to Uzbekistan. Sometimes Uzbek law enforcement officers travel abroad to the countries of temporary residence of Uzbek asylum seekers to arrest them and bring back to Uzbekistan. The Uzbek secret services have been actively involved in either direct arrests and bringing back of Uzbek asylum seekers or initiating their arrests and extradition to Uzbekistan in such countries as Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Sometimes the Uzbek secret services act in the Uzbek asylum seekers or migrants’ communities abroad through their own informants and undercover agents. Most Uzbek asylum seekers forcedly brought back to Uzbekistan face trumped up criminal cases, illegal arrests, torture and lengthy imprisonment.

The Uzbek authorities have also increasingly been targeting Uzbek labor migrants in places like Russia and Kazakhstan and initiating their extradition back to Uzbekistan under trumped up criminal charges. In most cases the trumped up criminal charges are related to religious extremism, terrorism, and anti-constitutional crimes. Upon extradition to Uzbekistan the former labor migrants are convicted in show trials and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. The Uzbek authorities have also increased control over the labor migrants’ luggage and personal belongings, most specifically targeting personal laptops and mobile phones in search of religious extremist content.

e. Description of the form of torture used and any injury suffered as a result: It is very likely that Mr.Hamidkoriev is in the hands of the Uzbek secret services right now and have already been taken back to Uzbekistan, and being subjected to torture and similar ill-treatment there. Description of the forms of torture and similar ill-treatment in the Uzbek prisons, custodies and other detention places is well documented, including the by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of torture. Former Uzbek inmates and detainees recall gruesome methods of torture being employed at detention places, custodies and prisons along Uzbekistan, including electric shocks, sexual assault, the pulling out of prisoners’ fingernails, and long stints of solitary confinement without food or drink.

We believe Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev and Mrs.Eleanora Isaeva are also under a serious risk of being subjected to similar forms of torture and similar ill-treatment after being kidnapped. The fact that nobody knows their whereabouts and they have most likely already been taken back to Uzbekistan and held incommunicado there makes it really difficult to verify if they are being tortured but that shouldn’t stop the United Nations Special Rapporteur from making an official inquiry about their situation both from the Russian and Uzbekistani authorities.

f. Identify of the person or organization submitting the report (name and address, which will be kept confidential):

Mrs. Mutabar Tadjibaeva – Founder and President of International Human Rights Association “Fiery Hearts Club”

Address:7 Square Brassens Savigny Sur Orge 91600, Paris, France

Tel: +33679233927, +33950147243

E-mail: mutabartadjibaeva@gmail.com

Website: www.jarayon.com

Additional sheets should be attached where space does not allow for a full rendering of the information requested. Also, copies of any relevant corroborating documents, such as medical or police records should be supplied where it is believed that such information may contribute to a fuller accounting of the incident. Only copies and not originals of such documents should be sent.

I. Identity of the person(s) subjected to torture

A. Family Name: Hamidkoriev

B. First and other names: Mirsobir

C. Sex: Male

D. Birth date or age: 1977

E. Nationality: Uzbekistan

F. Occupation: Before leaving Uzbekistan under the threats of trumped up criminal case, lengthy imprisonment, persecution, attempts of suicide and attacks on his personal security and life Mr. Mirsobir Hamidkoriev has been a well-know movie producer and businessman in Uzbekistan. Mr. Hamidkoriev has been living in Moscow, Russia and seeking for a political asylum in protection of persecution, torture, similar ill-treatment and lengthy imprisonment under trumped up politically motivated criminal case. In May 2014 Zamoskovoretski district court of Moscow city has granted his asylum application and recognized him as a temporary refugee in the territory of the Russian Federation. He expected to receive a copy of the official decision of the court on granting his asylum application on June 12th, 2014.

G. Identity card number (if applicable): N/A

F. Activities (trade union, political, religious, humanitarian/ solidarity, press, etc.): Before leaving Uzbekistan under the threats of trumped up criminal case, lengthy imprisonment, persecution, attempts of suicide and attacks on his personal security and life Mr. Mirsobir Hamidkoriev has been a well-know movie producer and businessman in Uzbekistan. He owned and run a successful store of electric appliances in Tashkent – the capital city of Uzbekistan. He has also produced a film titled “Nafs” which was banned for several years in Uzbekistan by the government censorship for allegedly its religious content, and eventually allowed for public demonstration only in early 2014.

Mr.Hamidkoriev has been living in Moscow, Russia and seeking for a political asylum in protection of persecution, torture, similar ill-treatment and lengthy imprisonment under trumped up politically motivated criminal case. In May 2014 Zamoskovoretski district court of Moscow city has granted his asylum application and recognized him as a temporary refugee in the territory of the Russian Federation. He expected to receive a copy of the official decision of the court on granting his asylum application on June 12th, 2014.

G. Residential and/or work address: N/A. Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev, his wife Eleanora Isaeva and 8-month old child were hiding away for the last several months in different places of Moscow living in temporarily rented apartments because Mr.Hamidkoriev was afraid of being detained or kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services and taken back to Uzbekistan.

II. Circumstances surrounding torture

A. Date and place of arrest and subsequent torture: Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev, his wife Eleanora Isaeva and 8-month old child were hiding away for the last several months in different places of Moscow living in temporarily rented apartments because Mr. Hamidkoriev was afraid of being detained or kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services and taken back to Uzbekistan. Mr. Hamidkoriev was invited to Zamoskovoretskiy district court of Moscow city on June 12th for receiving an official decision of the court on granting his asylum application. On the day of kidnapping Mr.Hamidkoriev’s child were not feeling good and the couple called a taxi to visit the drug store and buy some medicines for the child. When they called a taxi Mr.Hamidkoriev’s Moscow friend named Ilya was at their apartment. The taxi arrived, the driver was a young man who introduced himself as “Nikolay” and his car was “Lada-Priora”. The couple and their child got into the taxi, when Mr.Hamidkoriev’s friend Ilya was also planning to join them, the taxi driver has refused to let him into the car saying he will provide taxi services only to the person who has called for a taxi service.

The couple left Ilya and got into the taxi. They asked the taxi to stop at the closest drugstore on their way. The taxi driver stopped the car near “Stariy Lekar” drugstore in Chapligina street in Moscow. Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife with an infant child in her hands went into the drugstore to buy medicines and Mr.Hamidkoriev remained in the car. Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife came out of the drugstore in about 5 minutes and didn’t find the taxi car and her husband in the street. She started calling on his mobile phone number but it was turned off. She didn’t know what to do and started asking about her husband and the taxi car from the people in the street. One of the eyewitnesses, a middle-aged Russian woman who was walking with her dog in the street told her that two young men of athletic forms approached the car from two sides and entered into the car from the back seats taking Mr.Hamidkoriev in the middle, and the car immediately left the place to the direction of Chistoprudniy boulevard of Moscow city.

We believe it was the Uzbek secret services with the support of their Russian counterparts who have kidnapped Mr.Hamidkoriev. We don’t know yet if the incident of torture or similar ill-treatment occurred against Mr.Misrobir Hamidkoriev but our many years of experience shows that at present he must be under a serious risk of being subjected to torture and ill-treatment by the Uzbek law enforcement and secret service officers. We are afraid that Mr. Hamidkoriev has already been taken to Uzbekistan by the Uzbek secret services or he will be taken away very soon after he was kidnapped. Our practice shows that in similar cases the kidnapped asylum seekers from Uzbekistan have usually been kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services on the days of direct flights from the Russian cities to Uzbekistan so that they can be immediately taken back to Uzbekistan and put into custody.

We believe this is a case with Mr.Hamidkoriev as well. In any event Mr.Hamidkoriev is under a serious threat of torture and similar ill-treatment in the hands of the Uzbek law enforcement and secret services. As monitoring of independent observers and human rights activists demonstrate in most cases the kidnapped or extradited Uzbek asylum seekers are held incommunicado in the hands of the Uzbek secret services for many months until they are coerced to provide self-incriminating testimonies as a result of torture and similar ill-treatment.

Just today on June 13th, 2014 Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva sent from her mobile phone +7 (968) 739-03-38 (a Russian mobile phone operator) a short text message to Mrs.Mutabar Tadjibayeva – a founder and president of International Human Rights Association “Fiery Hearts Club”, the author of this communication, asking her to urgently call her back. When Mrs. Mutabar Tadjibaeva called her back Eleanora Isaeva just managed to tell her that she was also kidnapped by unknown men and forcedly brought back in a direct flight from Moscow to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and has been held in a locked apartment alone. She doesn’t manage to report any names, address where she is held if she knows such details because the phone call was suddenly interrupted and Mrs.Tadjibayeva couldn’t reach her again.

We believe Mrs.Eleanora Isaeva was kidnapped and taken back to Tashkent by the Uzbek secret services as well in order to compel her husband to provide necessary self-incriminating testimonies and plead guilty. It is not rare when the accused in such cases are threatened by the Uzbek secret services by detention and rape of their women relatives, including wives and daughters in their presence if the accused refuse to plead guilty. We also believe that Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva also faces torture and similar ill-treatment. Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva is a citizen of Uzbekistan. Before leaving Uzbekistan with her husband she has worked as a ballet master for famous Uzbek pop singer Yulduz Usmonova. Mr.Hamidkoriev and Mrs.Eleanora Isaeva are not married legally.

We should also mention that Ilya (we don’t know the family name of that person – Mr.Hamidkoriev’s friend who was at Mr.Hamidkoriev’s apartment when the taxi car came has also been unavailable on his mobile phone since two days (Ilya’s Moscow mobile phone number +7 (966) 185-28-86). We are afraid that Ilya might also have been kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services and taken back to Uzbekistan. He was the first person who reported Hamidkoriev’s kidnapping to our organization. Ilya is also a citizen of Uzbekistan and he has been living and working in Russia as a labor migrant for the last several years. Both Ilya and Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife Eleanora Isaeva have been speaking out a lot to the mass media and human rights NGOs on Hamidkoriev’s case and we think this is one of the reasons why they might also be targeted by the Uzbek secret services.

B. Identity of force(s) carrying out the initial detention and/or torture (police, intelligence services, armed forces, paramilitary, prison officials, other): Coming from our experience with numerous similar cases and having studied the circumstances of Mr.Hamidkoriev’s and Mrs.Isayeva’s kidnapping in the Russian territory we have valid grounds to conclude that they were kidnapped by the Uzbek secret services with the assistance and support of the Russian secret services. The Uzbek Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case against Mr.Hamidkoriev on January 3, 2011 in his absentia accusing him, as usual in similar cases, of religious extremism and terrorism – at that point Mr.Hamidkoriev has already left Uzbekistan because of the fear of persecutions, attempts of suicide, threats on his personal security and life and trumped up criminal charges. According to the Uzbek Prosecutor General’s Office Mr.Hamidkoriev in conjunction with a group of young men in Tashkent, Uzbekistan established an Islamic terrorist group named “Islamic Jihad” the members of which included famous Uzbek sportsmen, businessmen and representatives of the show business.

Both Uzbek and Russian human rights activists, including our organization have rejected such charges as absurd and trumped up. Before Mr.Hamidkoriev decided to leave Uzbekistan his electronics appliances store was raided by the Uzbek secret services in late 2010 as a result of which the secret services illegally seized electronic products from his store in the amount of  USD $ 1.5millon. On the night of December 24th, 2010 when Mr.Hamidkoriev was returning from a restaurant with his wife Eleanora Isaeva when unknown men fired on their car and disappeared. On the same night the Uzbek secret services have arrested Mr.Hamidkoriev’s brother Miraziz Hamidkoriev who was consequently convicted for an alleged participation in religious extremism and imprisoned to lengthy prison terms. He still remains in prison in Uzbekistan. At the same night Mirsobir Hamidkoriev and his wife left Uzbekistan.

C. Were any person, such as a lawyer, relatives or friends, permitted to see the victim during detention? If so, how long after the arrest? No, nobody have seen or visited Mr. Hamidkoriev and Mrs. Eleanora Isaeva after they had been kidnapped. We believe both of them were taken back to Tashkent and held incommunicado in the hands of the Uzbek secret services.

D. Describe the methods of torture used: It is very likely that Mr. Hamidkoriev is in the hands of the Uzbek secret services right now and have already been taken back to Uzbekistan, and being subjected to torture and similar ill-treatment there. Description of the forms of torture and similar ill-treatment in the Uzbek prisons, custodies and other detention places is well documented, including the by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of torture. Former Uzbek inmates and detainees recall gruesome methods of torture being employed at detention places, custodies and prisons along Uzbekistan, including electric shocks, sexual assault, the pulling out of prisoners’ fingernails, and long stints of solitary confinement without food or drink.

We believe Mr.Mirsobir Hamidkoriev and Mrs. Eleanora Isaeva are also under a serious risk of being subjected to similar forms of torture and similar ill-treatment after being kidnapped. The fact that nobody knows their whereabouts and they have most likely already been taken back to Uzbekistan and held incommunicado there makes it really difficult to verify if they are being tortured but that shouldn’t stop the United Nations Special Rapporteur from making an official inquiry about their situation both from the Russian and Uzbekistani authorities.

E. What injuries were sustained as a result of the torture? We don’t know yet.

F. What was believed to be the purpose of the torture? Mr.Hamidkoriev faces torture and similar ill-treatment in order to coerce him to provide self-incriminating evidences and plead guilty. His wife Mrs. Eleanora Isaeva faces torture and similar ill-treatment in order to press her husband Mr.Hamidkoriev to plead guilty faster.

G. Was the victim examined by a doctor at any point during or after his/her ordeal? If so, when? Was the examination performed by a prison or government doctor? No, we don’t know yet.

H. Was appropriate treatment received for injuries sustained as a result of the torture? No, we don’t think this is likely to happen until Mr.Hamidkoriev is convicted and sent to prison for serving his prison term.

I. Was the medical examination performed in a manner which would enable the doctor to detect evidence of injuries sustained as a result of the torture? Were any medical reports or certificates issued? If so, what did the reports reveal? We don’t know yet.

J. If the victim died in custody, was an autopsy or forensic examination performed and which were the results? N/A. But it is not rare for victims in similar cases to die in custody or later on in a prison as a result of torture and similar ill-treatment. Many similar cases have been well documented in Uzbekistan.

III. Remedial action

Were any domestic remedies pursued by the victim or his/her family or representatives (complaints with the forces responsible, the judiciary, political organs, etc.)? If so, what was the result?

In the evening of June 9th, 2014 (the day Mr.Hamidkoriev was kidnapped) Mr.Hamidkoriev’s Moscow based lawyer Mr.Illarion Vasilev tried to file an appeal at Basmanniy district department of police in Moscow city on the fact of his client’s kidnapping. The Moscow police refused to accept their appeal, saying their office hours have ended and told the lawyer to come the next day. One of the police officers in person admitted to Mrs.Eleanora Isaeva, Mr.Hamidkoriev’s wife, that nobody would search for her husband. The lawyer managed to file an appeal with the Moscow police department the next day on June 10th, 2014.

Committee of Civic Assistance, a Moscow based human rights NGO, which was also representing Mr.Hamidkoriev’s asylum case, have immediately informed the Russian Federal Security Service, Federal Migration Service, Federal Border Service and the Russian Ombusdman and requested preventing Mr.Hamidkoriev’s kidnapping through the Russian state borders.

The Committee of Civic Assistance has also immediately informed the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg. The European Court’s reaction was fast and it applied Rule #39 on Mr.Hamidkoriev’s appeal according to which the Russian authorities are requested to prevent extradition of Mr.Hamidkoriev to Uzbekistan, investigate the kidnapping of Mr.Hamidkoriev and clarify whether the Russian secret services were part of this operation. The Russian authorities are urged to respond the European Court by July 1st. But we believe this timeline and the European Court’ reaction is not sufficient for timely protection of Mr.Hamidkoriev’s and his wife’s personal securities and lives who are already in Uzbekistan in the hands of the Uzbek secret services and who face serious risks of torture and similar ill-treatment.

IV. Information concerning the author of the present report:

A. Family Name: Tadjibaeva

B. First Name: Mutabar

C. Relationship to victim: Not related, represents a human rights NGO

D. Organization represented, if any: International Human Rights Association “Fiery Hearts Club”

E. Present full address:

Address:7 Square Brassens Savigny Sur Orge 91600, Paris, France

Tel: +33679233927, +33950147243

E-mail: mutabartadjibaeva@gmail.com

Website: www.jarayon.com