Par Lauryn Oates le 11 février 2010
In the vast emptiness of the Kyzyl Kum desert that covers western
Uzbekistan, there is a dark prison called Jaslyk. The very name causes
local people to shudder. There, inmates are jammed into cells, 16 in
each, sometimes forced to stand for days on end, forbidden to speak out
loud.
One day in 2002, two men were being tortured in Jaslyk. Their names
were Muzafar Avazov and Khusnuddin Olimov. Submerged in boiling water,
they were literally boiled alive, a form of torture otherwise unknown
since the likes of 14th-century Scotland or the Roman Inquisition...
