"'You have a nice body,' he said. 'What kind of sex do you like?'".
Kamila Norova, a 25-year-old transgender woman, is visibly upset as she talks about how she was mistreated and sexually assaulted while in custody in Uzbekistan, a Central Asian country and former Soviet republic.
She moved to Russia when she was 17, because she wanted to undergo sex reassignment surgery, but kept her Uzbek citizenship.
- Who was the Serbian Merlinka - the first trans person in the public eye of the Balkans
- Fraudulent trans person subjected to conversion therapy in Siberia
- Why modern medicine ignores transgender people
How easy is it to change gender in Uzbekistan?
In Uzbekistan, such procedures are not common.
Although there is no data on how many people have undergone gender reassignment, anecdotal evidence suggests that people can receive hormone therapy in the country and, although very rarely, undergo gender reassignment surgery.
But most Uzbeks who want to undergo such an operation decide to travel to Russia or other countries.
After the operation, Kamila returned to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, only to renew her passport.
She says she was detained on false charges, spent 25 days in detention, suffered sexual harassment, beatings, death threats and invasive medical examinations.
Trans rights in Uzbekistan are not defined by law.
However, people can get new identity cards or passports that confirm their gender change, even if the procedure was performed abroad.
While we are talking online, Kamila shows me the identity card she received before being detained in Tashkent, which states that her gender is female.
"As soon as I got my domestic ID, I applied for a passport," she says.
"The head of the passport service said that I have to come for an interview, because that is the procedure for everyone who lives abroad."
She agreed and was taken to "Room 3" in the district passport office in Tashkent for an interview.
There she was met by a young policeman named "Bobur" in his mid-twenties.
Bobur started looking through her phone, which contained free photos taken after her surgery, Kamila recalls.
- The life of parents of trans children in Serbia - "It's not a choice, it's what he is"
- When you are born in the Balkans in a body that is not yours
- "We need an international shelter for trans people"
'He asked me to bare my breasts'
"He said that I have a beautiful body, that I have beautiful breasts.
"What kind of sex do I like? Do I like a threesome with two men?".
Although Kamila became angry at these remarks of a sexual nature, Bobur continued, asking her to "bare her chest so he could feel her breasts".
She did not do so and hit Bobur's hand as he reached out to touch her.
But Bobur was persistent.
"Then he tore a piece of paper from the notebook and wrote his own phone number.
"He typed the number into my phone and saved it. He asked me where I lived and if there were any hotels nearby. 'We could meet at the hotel,' he said.
"I tried to ignore him and asked him when my passport would be ready. "We'll meet at the hotel, then it'll be over in the blink of an eye," he said.
"I started to cry and I was allowed to leave."
Later, the head of the passport office told her that Bobur was from the anti-terrorist unit of the police force.
BBC Uzbek contacted "Bobur" through a chat app provided by Kamila and told him her accusations.
The message was read, but no one answered it.
Shocked by the abuse she was subjected to, Kamila sought legal advice and filed an official complaint.
She was later called for another interview in another government department.
There she was met by two police officers, asked to leave her phone in the cabinet at the reception and was taken upstairs to an interrogation room.
Her friends and relatives who accompanied her were not allowed to enter.
"At first everything was polite, but a few minutes later they started saying terrible things to me," Kamila recalls.
'You are all prostitutes'
"'All trans women are the same, you are all prostitutes,' they said.
"They accused me of having lovers in high positions, such as MPs. After some time, I asked for some water.
"'I'll pee in the bottle and you'll drink my pee,' one of them said.
"'What did you report to Bobura?', asked another. 'Now you're going to pay for it.'"
Threats and insults soon turned into violent physical attacks, says Kamila.
At one point, one of the officers grabbed her by the throat, pressed her against a wall, pulled a gun from its holster and said, "You're going to die here," as she sobbed, she recalled.
"Then the door opened.
"A policeman and a policewoman entered. My attacker started slapping me, then he pushed me and because I was on high heels I lost my balance and fell to the floor.
"The others just laughed.
"While I was getting up, they started beating me again. I begged the policewoman for help. 'You are a woman, don't you see that they are beating a woman?', I said.
"'You are not a woman, people like you should be killed,' she replied."
They ignored her pleas to get a lawyer.
Instead, she says, more police officers entered and the abuse continued.
She was then threatened and forced to sign a document in Uzbek, but since her knowledge of Uzbek is modest, she had no idea of its content.
When she was then taken to the courtroom upstairs, she was shocked to hear what she was accused of, she recalls.
The judge said she was arrested in the street, was behaving suspiciously and refused to comply with officers' orders to come with them to be identified.
Kamila denied the charges, but was sentenced to 15 days in prison.
BBC is in Serbian from now on and on YouTube, follow us HERE.
'Right to appeal'
Kamila says her suffering continued in prison with invasive, painful and humiliating medical examinations.
When her 15-day prison sentence expired, she was sentenced to another eight days on charges of bribing an official to obtain documents, which she denies.
The BBC in Uzbek contacted the Uzbek Ministry of the Interior detailing Kamila's allegations and asked if any of the police officers involved would be investigated.
"A citizen dissatisfied with the work of the law enforcement agency has the right to complain through a pre-defined procedure," read the response from the press office of the head of the ministry.
In Uzbekistan, the public's attitude towards trans and LGBT people is generally very negative.
On social networks, you can find videos showing the abuse and beating of trans people.
Islamic sentiment has been on the rise in the country since President Shavkat Mirziyojev introduced relative freedom for religious practices in the country, after which religious bloggers and imams began to openly condemn LGBT people.
Feeling threatened, many LGBT or trans people began to leave Uzbekistan.
Kamila left the country when she was 17 to join her sister in Moscow.
There she began her transformation and had surgeries, among them an orchiectomy - a procedure to remove both testicles.
Charge withdrawn
As a singer and songwriter in Russia, she has more than 200.000 followers on Instagram, where she posts pictures and clips from her videos.
Kamila eventually received a new passport from the Uzbek authorities, which shows her new gender.
She says she was told all charges against her have been dropped.
She believes that she has the right to live as she wants after all the suffering she went through.
"Now I want to start a family and, if the law allows, to adopt a little girl," she says.
Watch the video:
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube i Viber. If you have a topic proposal for us, contact us at bbcnasrpskom@bbc.co.uk
Bonus video:
