Arrested Cut Off Ear in Detention Center?

Accused of drug trafficking, 33-year-old Hyunar Jafarov during pre-trial detention in jail in Kurdakhani was subjected to physical pressure and torture. Turan was told by his lawyer Elmar Suleymanov.

According to him, Jafarov was detained by the General Directorate for Combating Drugs at the Ministry of Internal Affairs on March 20 and on March 22 the court arrested him, ignoring his allegations of torture to extract confessions.

The lawyer joined the defense of Jafarov on March 23, but until March 29 he was not allowed to the prisoner. Despite the court's decision to transfer Jafarov to a jail, he was held in the General Directorate for Combating Drugs, and then the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime at the Interior Ministry, where was also subjected to physical pressure.

Later, the police tried to hide the traces of violence on the body of the prisoner, covering his body in many ointments and creams.

At the same time, the place of Jafarov’s detention was hidden from his relatives and lawyer. Only after the lawyer appealed to a higher authority, on March 28 Jafarov was secretly transferred to a detention center and Suleymanov finally met him on March 29.

Despite numerous signs of violence, the detention center’s doctor recorded only a black eye on Jafarov.

Today, the Narimanov District Court held a trial on the lawyer’s complaint of the illegal actions of the investigator, who did not allow him to meet with his client.

At the trial Suleymanov found that the prisoner has been cut off a part of his ear.

"When I last saw Jafarov in jail on April 2, there was no trace like that. So, after 2 April he was again tortured in jail. I would have never thought that this could happen with a prisoner in the detention center," said the lawyer.

With regard to the litigation with the investigator, the meeting has been postponed to April 15.

Our attempts to get comments from the Prison Service have not succeeded yet. -06B-