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The Prove They Are Alive! campaign is pleased to learn that Saparmamed Nepeskuliev, a civic journalist and contributor to RFE/RL and Alternative Turkmenistan News, was released on May 19, 2018 after serving out his three year sentence. In July 2015, Nepeskuliev was arrested on drug possession charges, which are widely believed to have been politically […]
May 21 to 27 marks the International Week of the Disappeared. On this solemn occasion, the human rights campaign “Prove They Are Alive!” calls upon the government of Turkmenistan to restore the rights of the numerous detainees serving long-term sentences in Turkmenistan’s prisons, about whom no information is available since their imprisonment. We also call […]
The European Union issued a statement condemning two recent deaths of victims of enforced disappearances: Begmurad Otuzov, who died in prison in early February 2018 after more than 15 years in full isolation, and Allamurat Allakuliev, who died after 16 years with no contact with the outside world. The EU calls these cases a part […]
Turkmenistan: Enforced Disappearances in Prisons; Prison Conditions and Torture; Cooperation with International Human Rights Mechanisms Statement by the Centre for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights for the pre-sessional meeting in advance of the 3d cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of Turkmenistan This statement[1] has been prepared in advance of the 3d cycle […]
Очередная смерть жертвы насильственного исчезновения – еще одно свидетельство кризиса прав человека в тюремной системе Туркменистана. Из сообщений «Альтернативных новостей Туркменистана» и «Хроники Туркменистана» кампании «Покажите их живыми!» стало известно, что еще один из исчезнувших в туркменских тюрьмах –бывший начальник Четвертого отдела центрального аппарата Комитета национальной безопасности Туркменистана Алламурад Аллакулиев – скончался после шестнадцати лет тюремного заключения. […]
Another Death of a Disappeared Person Underscores the Human Rights Crisis in Turkmenistan’s Prison System. The Prove They Are Alive! campaign has learned from Alternative Turkmenistan News and Chronicles of Turkmenistan that former Head of the Fourth Department of the National Security Committee of Turkmenistan, Allamurat Allakuliev, has died after sixteen years of being disappeared […]
Международное сообщество должно предпринять незамедлительные и решительные действия для прекращения насильственных исчезновений в Туркменистане Как стало известно из сообщения «Хроники Туркменистана», бывший первый заместитель Генерального прокурора и бывший начальник Следственного отдела Комитета национальной безопасности Туркменистана Бегмурад Отузов скончался в начале февраля в заключении после более чем 15 лет нахождения в полной изоляции в тюрьме Овадан-депе. […]
The International Community Must Take Immediate and Strong Action on the Problem of Enforced Disappearances in Turkmenistan We have learned from the Chronicles of Turkmenistan that the former First Deputy Prosecutor General and the former Head of the Investigative Department of the National Security Committee of Turkmenistan, Begmurad Otuzov, died in custody in early February 2018, […]
Crude Accountability, in collaboration with Busboys and Poets, hosted the US launch of “Parting Song,” a book of poems written in prison by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and former Representative of Turkmenistan to the OSCE, Batyr Berdyev (video). The hard copy of the book with the poems in the Russian original […]
On 28 February, an article[1] was posted on Radio Azatlyk’s website based on information received from an anonymous “source” who alleges having seen Konstantin Shikhmuradov free when meeting him in August 2016 in Garabogaz (Bekdash). The “source” asserts that Konstantin, 15 years after his trial and conviction in January 2003, is currently not in prison […]
