Jan 182012
 
Jizak schoolteacher Ziedullo Razakov
18.01.12 03:39
Sacked schoolteacher reinstated in Jizak

The prosecutor of Jizak region’s Zarbdar district has overturned a local school headmaster’s decision to sack one of his teachers, and has reinstated Ziedullo Razakov, an opponent of child labour, in his job.

Ziedullo Razakov was able to return to work today at School No.1 in Zarbdar district. The decision of the school’s headmaster, Bakhtior Elmuradov, to sack Razakov on 12 January, claiming he had broken his contract, was overturned by the district prosecutor Akmal Gulmuratov.

According to Razakov, he had fallen out with the headmaster during the cotton campaign in 2011, and in an attempt to keep his job he took his case to the district prosecutor.

Gulmuratov called Bakhtior Elmuradov to his office the same day, together with Zukhra Shaimanova, a school staff committee representative, and other senior members of the school personnel.

They wrote an explanatory letter regarding the legality of Razakov’s dismissal. Razakov wrote down his own explanation, saying that he was sacked while off sick.

After discussions between prosecutor and the headmaster, Elmuradov announced that Razakov was to be reinstated but that he himself would be leaving the school.

This is the third case brought before the Zarbdar prosecutor relating to the dispute between this teacher and the headmaster.

On 3 October 2011, Elmuradov abused and punched Razakov in a cotton field because he had given an interview to Radio Ozodlik (freedom) in which he had talked about school children being made to harvest cotton.

After this incident Razakov took Elmuradov to court, and won his case in November.

The headmaster was made to pay a fine for his offence and for the physical assault on Razakov. The fine was ten times the minimum wage, or 572,000 sums (around US$300).

Razakov then made initiated a further case against the headmaster, claiming that there had been financial embezzlement at the school.

The prosecutor appointed an inspector to visit the school. Their checks were completed on 19 December, and the resulting report concluded that their had been financial irregularities at the school amounting to several million sums.

At present the prosecutor’s investigation is in its final stages.

The inspector’s report states that several teachers, for a variety of reasons, were paid more than their rightful wage. Now, 27 teachers are having to pay back to the state the money that they received illegally, said to be a total of 6,279,655 sums.

Ziedullo Razakov, delighted to have been reinstated in his teaching post at the school, says he would like to believe that it is possible for the rule of law to prevail in Uzbekistan. He has at least been assured of this by the district prosecutor Akmal Gulmuratov, who said, “In Uzbekistan, the law does work, and you can return to your job at the school without worry.”

 

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