The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Dushanbe has detained a man who tortured a minor with a stun gun. According to the Dushanbe police, on December 5, 2023, law enforcement officers detained 18-year-old Firdaus Kudratullozoda, a resident of the capital. “Law enforcement officers detained Kudratullozoda Firdaus, born in 2005, […]
The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Dushanbe has detained a man who tortured a minor with a stun gun.
According to the Dushanbe police, on December 5, 2023, law enforcement officers detained 18-year-old Firdaus Kudratullozoda, a resident of the capital.
“Law enforcement officers detained Kudratullozoda Firdaus, born in 2005, a native and resident of the Sino district of Dushanbe, living at 75/2 Binihisorak Street,” the statement noted.
According to the investigation, “the minor Jalolov Asror Kurbonovich, born in 2008, a resident of the I. Somoni district, repeatedly used obscene language towards citizen Kudratullozoda Firdaus in front of his friends, prompting the latter to ambush him in front of the No. 70 general education school.”
It is reported that Firdaus Kudratullozoda invited the minor Asror Jalolov “for a conversation on the roof of the buildings known as the ‘Kairokkum’ houses in the capital, where the parties got into a verbal altercation. As a result, citizen Firdaus Kudratullozoda beat Asror Jalolov and inflicted several shocks with a stun gun on his body.”
It is currently unknown where and for whom Firdaus Kudratullozoda worked.
According to the Dushanbe police, “necessary materials have been prepared by the police for initiating a criminal case, and an investigation is underway.”
Earlier, a video circulated on social media showing a young man torturing a teenager with a stun gun. The footage shows the man shocking the minor boy several times with the stun gun. A third person’s voice can be heard off-camera, apparently recording the incident on a smartphone, mentioning the name of the torturer – Firdaus.
The video has caused a wide public outcry. Many on social media have called for law enforcement to detain the torturer and punish him severely so that “others would think twice.”
Despite the Dushanbe police stating that the injured minor publicly insulted the detained individual, it is still unknown how the victim, his relatives, or his lawyer reacted to this.
At the same time, some observers are convinced that the authorities mentioned the fact that the teenager publicly insulted the detainee for a reason, intending to mitigate the punishment for Firdaus Kudratullozoda.