Brothers who brutally whipped a woman in Kashkadarya were arrested

Earlier, in July 2022, it was reported that brothers beat a 38-year-old woman with a whip and cut her hair in Yakkabog district of Kashkadarya region.  This case was considered in the Dehkanabad Criminal Court.  This was reported by the Press Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It is noted that the beaten woman had been having a romantic relationship with a younger man who lived in the same house.  The man's brothers, who found out about this, went to the house where they lived in the middle of the night and forcibly brought both of them back to their house. Then, they were tied up with a rope and the 3 brothers took turns to beat them with a whip.  The father in charge of this situation ordered his sons to cut off the woman’s hair.  Around dawn, the woman escaped from the house through a window.

In court, the men expressed regret for what they had done and asked for forgiveness from the victim.

“They put me in an terrible situation.  Who will guarantee my recovery?  “I forgive them because he is my father’s brother (the father of the brothers),” said the victim in the courtroom.

According to the court’s verdict, and according to the relevant articles of the Criminal Code, the father and the younger son were sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment, one of the two sons was sentenced to 2 years, and the other to 3 years.