“We accepted criminal cases on the facts of the use of unlawful interrogation methods ... Not all such cases were handed over to us, but only in cases where serious consequences were recorded, more precisely, the death of detainees,” he said in an interview with the Kazakhstanskaya Pravda newspaper. .
According to available information, as a result of torture, two people died in the Almaty temporary detention center, three in the East Kazakhstan region and one person in Taldykorgan.
The press service of the president of Kazakhstan earlier stated that criminal cases were initiated in the country on 170 facts of torture and abuse of power after the January events in the republic.
On February 16, Zhanat Eshmagambetov, chairman of the Kazakh Interior Ministry's penitentiary system committee, denied reports that there were torture chambers in the Alma-Ata pre-trial detention center to extract evidence from those suspected of participating in the January riots.