Three police officers convicted for torture in Atyrau

They were charged under the Article 141-1, part 2, paragraph "a" of the Criminal Code (torture committed by a group of persons or group of persons by prior agreement). "The defendants were senior officer and two police officers of the Criminal Police Administration. The senior officer was sentenced for 2 years in jail and the two police officers for 1.5 years imprisonment in a penal colony", said the spokesman of the regional court Boranbay Galiyev. Recall that in December 2013 the police officers arrested a man on suspicion of theft. According to the investigation, the convicted beat and tortured the detainee.