Deputy prosecutor general arrested in Uzbekistan
Anvar Nabiyev, Senior Deputy Prosecutor General whose career took a grandiose leap in the wake of the events in Andijan in May 2005, was arrested. Well-informed sources in Uzbek security structures do not say what happened but assume that "Nabiyev's career is finished."
"The matter is handled by the Tashkent Municipal Prosecutor's Office," a source said.
Nabiyev headed the directorate of investigations of the National Security Service before May 2005. After May, however, he was made senior deputy prosecutor general. Once participants and organizers of the Andijan insurrection were tried and convicted, Nabiyev became state advisor to the president of Uzbekistan. To be more exact, he was put in charge of security structures and courts. Nabiyev resumed his post with the Prosecutor General's Office a year later.
Units of the regular army crushed the rebellion in Andijan in May 2005, killing almost 700 protesters (according to independent sources). The authorities came up with only 178 casualties in Andizhan.
The United States and European countries demanded an international investigation. Official Tashkent flatly refused, and the international community imposed sanctions against Uzbekistan. (The pressure on Uzbekistan eased off later on.)
Voice of Freedom (Tashkent, Uzbekistan). Translated by Ferghana.Ru