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Turkmenistan: The Dozens of ‘Disappeared’ Video Spotlights Government’s Long Silence About Prisoners’ Fate NOVEMBER 26, 2014 (New York) – Dozens of people have been forcibly disappeared in Turkmenistan, some for more than a decade, Human Rights Watch said in a video released today. The government of Turkmenistan should immediately inform the relatives of the disappeared of their fate […]
Не верь, не бойся, не проси. Россия отреклась от Бориса Шихмурадова “31 октября 2014 года Пресненский районный суд города Москвы отказал в иске Татьяне Шихмурадовой, жене пожизненно осужденного вТуркмении Бориса Шихмурадова: она жаловалась на бездействие МИДа России, который уже 12 лет ничего не предпринимает, чтобы разузнать о судьбе ее мужа. Самым шокирующим для Шихмурадовой стало возражение представителя МИД […]
RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service, Radio Azatlyk, has made the information in our report about enforced disappearances in Turkmenistan available in Turkmen, through an interactive page on their website. Currently, the page profiles 20 individuals who have disappeared inside the prisons of Turkmenistan, with brief information about each case appearing when scrolling over their image. This important collaboration […]
Head of the U.S. Delegation to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, J. Brian Atwood, strongly voiced our concerns during the Closing Plenary of the 2014 HDIM: Closing Reinforced Plenary: Any Other Business As delivered by U.S. Head of Delegation J. Brian Atwood | OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting | Warsaw, October 3, 2014|Original can […]
Prove They Are Alive mentioned in this important piece in The Diplomat ( 24 Sept 2014) by Knox Thames, Director of Policy and Research at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and Cathy Cosman, Senior Policy Analyst at USCIRF. Original can be found here. Following a potentially significant change in U.S. policy, what comes […]
On 30 August, the International Day of the Disappeared, the campaign has sent letters to missions of more than 20 OSCE participating states, including Swiss OSCE Chairmanship and the incoming Serbian OSCE Chairmanship. Below is the text of the letters. August 30, 2014 We are writing you on behalf of the international human rights […]
Русский Campaign Spotlights Dozens Who Have Heard Nothing about Imprisoned Relatives for More than a Decade Dozens of people have been forcibly disappeared in Turkmenistan, some for more than a decade, a coalition of human rights groups called the Prove They Are Alive! campaign said today in connection with the International Day of the Disappeared, which […]
www.provetheyarealive.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2014 OSCE Asks Turkmenistan To Prove They Are Alive On July 2, 2014, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted its Baku Declaration, in which it specifically asks the Government of Turkmenistan to provide information on persons who have disappeared in Turkmen prisons, including Boris Shikhmuradov and Batyr Berdiev. The Prove […]
17.06.2014, 12:30Гундогар Участники международной кампании «Покажите их живыми!» провели брифинг в Швейцарии 16 июня 2014 года в Женеве в ходе 26-й сессии Совета по правам человека ООН состоялся брифинг на тему «Права человека в Туркменистане и Беларуси: насильственные исчезновения и пытки», организованный Human Rights Watch и Платформой «Гражданская солидарность» в рамках международной кампании «Покажите их […]
21 May 2014 The 2014 Turkmenistan Gas Congress, held 20-21 May 2014 in the environmentally unsustainable resort town of Avaza, on the Caspian Sea, not far from oil fields and refineries, has drawn a number of international delegates, including high level EU and US government representatives. On the eve of the Congress, Malena Mard, […]