Abduseit Ormanov

Victims
11
Years active
2011 - 2012
Location
Uzbekistan / Kazakhstan
Method
Strangulation
Status
Tried in Uzbekistan alongside a second man and both sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014. The roster also records a life sentence in Kazakhstan, and nothing available settles whether that was a separate prosecution.

Ormanov was tried in Uzbekistan alongside a second man and both were sentenced to life imprisonment. The killings were placed in 2011 and 2012, on both sides of the Uzbek-Kazakh border. The victims were women and were strangled.

Beyond that the case is undocumented in any source that can be checked. An Agence France-Presse dispatch of February 2, 2014 reporting the two life sentences is the whole of the accessible record. Uzbek courts do not publish judgments, no local reporting followed the verdict, and the victims have never been named in print. The roster also records a life sentence in Kazakhstan, which would mean either two separate prosecutions or an error carried forward from the wire copy; nothing available settles which.

The figure of eleven is therefore the number a court accepted, not one that has been independently reconstructed. Uzbekistan's criminal process in this period was repeatedly criticised by United Nations bodies over convictions resting on confessions, and nothing in the public record shows what the evidence against Ormanov was.