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The President of Uzbekistan  President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a video-selective meeting where he spoke about the torture taking place in the Andijan region.

“The most disturbing thing is that in the Andijan region there are continuing cases of obtaining testimony under torture, violence and bullying. You all heard about it, of course: about gas masks and batons. The leaders of the Andijan region have a lot of experience in this, in particular, at Sobirov. I knowingly sent him this area. I believed, comrade colonel. Where will you come with such violence? Where is the prosecutor looking?, -noted Uzbek President.

“These games with batons, gas masks - they are things from the past that are not needed in Uzbekistan. The whole world is watching us, every day 1000 articles about Uzbekistan, at least 700-800, are published on the Internet. Even in Ethiopia, they write about Uzbekistan. Every step we take is under the control of the world community ... ”, - said Savkat Mirziyoyev.

"The Qazaq Times"