The Chilanzar district court of Tashkent imposed a fine of 6.8 million soums (about 50.3 thousand rubles) on the teacher Ozoda Ravshanova, who beat a Russian-speaking schoolboy. This is reported by the portal "Gazeta.uz" with reference to the court decision.
The teacher was found guilty under Article 41 (insult) and Part 2 of Article 52 (intentional infliction of minor bodily injury that did not result in a short-term health disorder). The Code of Administrative Offences of Uzbekistan.
At the trial, Ravshanova told her version of what happened. According to her, she came to get a job at school No. 188, the woman has no specialty, but she was entrusted with a literature lesson, since the teacher of this subject was "at the event." Before the start of the lesson, she warned the students that she would teach a lesson in Uzbek, two sixth-graders objected, to whom she promised a separate lesson. The publication notes that she came to get a job at the school as a head teacher.
She claims that during the lesson one of the students "said something against her," Ravshanova pulled his ear "to call to order." She explained the insult to the student's parents by the fact that they "exerted pressure" by talking to her on the phone.
The office of the Children's Ombudsman of Uzbekistan reported that the teacher is currently serving seven days of administrative arrest for an incident at her daughter's school. The day after the beating of the student, she was called to school No. 204, where her daughter studies. The woman had a conflict with the school management, during which she hit the deputy director. In addition, she resisted the arrival at the scene along with the police and The National Guard. After this conflict, Ravshanova was found guilty under Article 163 (petty hooliganism), part 1 of Article 194 (failure to comply with the legal requirements of the police officer) and Article 197-5 (illegal interference in the professional activities of a teacher). Together with the arrest, she was fined 3.4 million soums (about 25.1 thousand rubles).
As reported by EADaily, the teacher beat the student for asking her to speak Russian. Later, the teacher told the boy's parents: "Uzbekistan is a country for Uzbeks, and let the rest leave."
Information about the incident reached the Russian Foreign Ministry, where they called on Uzbekistan to assess the report of ill-treatment of a Russian-speaking child. There can be no place for hostility in the relations of partner countries, including on linguistic grounds, said the representative of the department Maria Zakharova. According to her, the Foreign Ministry keeps the issue "in the field of the closest attention."
Later, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, Uzbek Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov indirectly mentioned the incident at Tashkent school No. 188. At the meeting, "special attention was paid to the need to counter manifestations of intolerance on interethnic grounds."