Baku / 09.03.18 / Turan: "Information that during the interrogation on March 8 in the police department of the Tovuz region a local resident Tofik Shukurov threw himself from the third floor because of torture, does not correspond to reality." Radio Azadlig was told by the representative of the regional police Elman Gahramanov.
Denying the information spread in social networks about torture against several people, Gahramanov said Tofik Shukurov had been previously convicted.
"He was convicted of drug-related crimes. There was a theft in the district, 5,000 manat was stolen in a nurse's home. Tofik Shukurov was interrogated in connection with this case. The investigator asked him to wait in the corridor, at which time the incident occurred. He did what he decided to do," said the policeman.
According to Gahramanov, the condition of Tofig Shukurov, who left the third floor, is "normal", and he is hospitalized.
The hospital doctor Pasha Muradov said Shukurov was examined and his injuries are not hard. The doctor denied the information about the delivery to the hospital of three people injured from police. He also said that Shukurov was sent for treatment in the Kazakh region. The talk with Shukurov"s relatives failed.
Recall that on March 8 social networks disseminated information about torture of three people in the Tovuz police. -0-
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