17.10.2006
Batken: the Uzbek frontier guards have beaten the Kyrgyz citizens with
automatic devices.
About incident on the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border, "Azattyk" has been informed by
the chief of department of Batken regional administration Tashtemir
Eshaliev. According to his information, three citizens of Kyrgyzstan passed
by the machine through the Uzbek area Rishtan and in fellow travellers have
taken the kyrgyz grandmother . On boundary point Vuadil that is at entrance
to Kadamdjai (Kyrgyzstan), the Uzbek frontier guards began to demand from
the grandmother 2000 sum penalty, for that she does not have in the
passport mark about entrance to Uzbekistan. In result, there was a quarrel
between the Uzbek frontier guards and citizens of Kyrgyzstan, frontier
guards have beaten unarmed persons with automatic devices. Among hackneyed
there was also a young woman.