Sadriddin Toshev
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2015-039-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2015
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 38.861034
Longitude: 71.276093
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Tajikistan
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 2 June 2014; 5 March 2015
- Type of record
- Named individual
- Gender
- Male
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
a detainee at Khujand prison
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
for having cooperated with the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment during his official visit to Tajikistan in May 2012 (A/HRC/28/85, case TJK 3/2014).
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Special Procedures: thematic
- Dates of engagement
- May 2012
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- 5 November 2012; October 2013; 25 January 2014
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Khujand; Sughd
- Reprisal information
On 5 November 2012, Mr. Toshev was reportedly beaten and tortured in front of approximately 40 other prisoners by prison officials at Khujand prison who explicitly referred to his interaction with the Special Rapporteur and the United Nations more generally. Mr. Toshev was afterwards reportedly charged with fraud for deliberately inflicting wounds on his body with the aim of discrediting prison officials and for the distribution of false information, tried in closed court proceedings by the Khujand city court and, in October 2013, sentenced to nine years of imprisonment. On 25 January 2014, the Sughd regional court reportedly rejected his appeal.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Charge/Investigation/Prosecution: Conviction
- Physical attack: Torture/Cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Government response dates
- 27 August 2014
- Government response content
The Government, in its response of 27 August 2014, indicated that criminal proceedings had been launched into this case and that by Mr. Toshev’s own testimony it had become clear that there had been no acts of reprisal on the part of prison system employees (ibid.).
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0