Human Rights Watch: “Turkmenistan: The Dozens of ‘Disappeared’”

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 […]

Russia “disowns” Turkmen opposition figure Boris Shikhmuradov

Believe not, fear not and ask not: Russia “disowns” Turkmen opposition figure  “On 31 October 2014, the Presnenskiy District Court in Moscow dismissed the complaint lodged by Tatyana Shikhmuradova, the wife of Boris Sikhmuradov who is imprisoned for life in Turkmenistan. Mrs. Shikhmuradova lodged a lawsuit against the foreign affairs ministry of Russia, which has […]

US delegation to 2014 OSCE HDIM strongly voiced our concerns

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 […]

“A New U.S. Human Rights Policy Towards Turkmenistan”

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 […]