On 6 July 2007 at 23.30 in the district division of the police of Pakhtakor district of Djizak region the deputy chief of the RUVD by the name of Akmal stabbed human rights activist Sottieva Nilufar, member of the community movement “Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan”, twice with a knife.
So as to cover his crime, officer Akmal together with other officers threw the injured Sottieva Nilufar out onto the street. Sottieva Nilufar lay on the street for over an hour, and none of the police officers called an ambulance, or offered any help. As she lay on the street bleeding, an officer of the criminal investigation section named Shovkat walked up to Sottieva Nilufar and reported by telephone to the chief of Pakhtakorskii RUVD, Melibaev Saib, that she was still alive.
Only thanks to the help of an unknown passer-by, who called an ambulance, Sottieva Nilufar by a miracle survived.
Sottieva Nilufar was diagnosed with knife stab wounds to the stomach area and was admitted to the resuscitation unit of the Pakhtakor district hospital of Djizak region.
After seven days Sottieva Nilufar was transferred from the resuscitation unit to a general ward, but she did not receive the treatment that she required. She did not have the money to pay for the medication she needed and she did not even have enough money to pay for food, as even the hospital, like other medical institutions of Uzbekistan, does not have the means to purchase all the necessary medication and sufficient food supplies for patients.
On 12 July 2007 doctors discharged Sottieva Nilufar and assigned her to treatment in the out-patients’ department.
As the treatment was incomplete, two days after leaving hospital Sottieva Nilufar’s condition worsened. With her health, and even her life in danger, the human rights activist, on 16th July, came to Tashkent to the “Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan” for help and protection.
The community human rights movement “Birdamlik” also was active in the help it showed to Sottieva Nilufar.
Now Sottieva Nilufar is hospitalised in the surgical unit of the 3rd Clinic of Tashkent Medical Academy.
We, human rights activists of Uzbekistan, are concerned for the life and health of Sottieva Nilufar, and also for the fate of her three young children who are with her neighbour where she lives in the makhalla “Samarkand” in Pakhtakor, Djizak region.
We, human rights activists of Uzbekistan, demand that the police officer by the name of Akmal, working as deputy chief of the RUVD of Pakhtakor district of Djizak region, be brought to criminal responsibility for the intentional infliction of bodily injury!
We also demand that the chief of Pakhtakor ROVD, Melibaev Soib [sic. E.F.], be brought to criminal responsibility, as well as all other police officers who did not offer the necessary medical help to Sottieva Nilufar and left her in a helpless state bleeding after a knife wound,!
Human Rights Activists:
Urlaeva Elena, Karateeva Nina, Yamaltdinov Shamil, Mukhitdinov Akromkhoja, Abdillo Tojiboi ugli, Djakhongir Shosalimov, Akhtam Shaimardanov.
16 July 2007
Tashkent, Uzbekistan.