Muzafar Avazov
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Muzafar Avazov is an Uzbekistan torture victim. He died in 2002, apparently from religiously-motivated state torture.
Human Rights Watch recorded his death as "suspicious" with apparent signs of torture, highlighting Uzbekistan's repression of independent Muslims.
Individuals who had seen the body told Human Rights Watch that it showed clear signs of torture. Avazov was imprisoned at Jaslyk Prison, said by the same organization to be "well-known for its harsh conditions and ill-treatment and torture of religious prisoners."
The body showed signs of 60 - 70% severe burns on the legs, buttocks, lower back and arms, stated by doctors to be due to immersion in boiling water. Eye witnesses also report a "large, bloody wound on the back of the head, heavy bruising on the forehead and side of the neck, and that his hands had no fingernails."
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- [Photographs of the body showing wounds] (Warning: graphic images!)
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