The Uzbek Ministry of Internal Affairs denied reports of the arrest of the former chief of the Penal Corrections Department (PCD), the colonel Abdukarim Shodiev, published in particular on the Uzbek service of the Radio Liberty website.
"Since August 2017 the colonel Shodiev has been serving as the head of the department of professional training in the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs," the ministry said in a statement.
In February, the PCD announced the appointment of Colonel Bahrombek Adilov as the new chief of the department.
