Vienna – The Turkmenistan Working Group of the Civic Solidarity Platform delivered a statement at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on freedom of expression …
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Enforced Disappearances in Turkmen Prisons Must Be Stopped
Statement by the “Prove They Are Alive!” Campaign on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances On this International Day of the Victims …
Turkmen Dissident Attacked in Moscow
While preparations to the adoption of the new constitution and presidential elections are under way in Turkmenistan, special services of this country have again stepped …
Turkmenistan: End Enforced Disappearances
“Prove They Are Alive!” campaign calls upon the government of Turkmenistan to shed light on the fate of dozens who have been imprisoned for more …
EBRD Backsliding on Promises in Turkmenistan
On May 24, 2016, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) President Suma Chakrabarti met with Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to discuss the possibility of …
Press Release: Turkmen Special Services Increasing Pressure on Dissidents Abroad
Against a backdrop of growing international criticism of the human rights situation in Turkmenistan, the country’s security services have stepped up operations aimed at suppressing …
Attack on Geldy Kyarizov’s family, Exit from Turkmenistan Denied
Geldy Kyarizov’s family suffered a violent attack on their lives today as they attempted to leave the country. A leading expert on the famous Akhal-Teke …
Freedom for Arrested Civic Activist and Freelance Journalist in Turkmenistan
Crude Accountability calls for the immediate release of Saparmamed Nepeskuliev, a civic activist and freelance correspondent for the Turkmen service of Radio Free Europe Radio …
Widespread Enforced Disappearances and Torture in Turkmenistan: New reports call for immediate action to ‘Prove They Are Alive!’
The ‘Prove They Are Alive!’ campaign, led by an international coalition of human rights groups, held a briefing today at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), where it launched two reports, Prove They Are Alive!: The Disappeared in Turkmenistan, and Ovadan Depe: Medieval Torture in Modern Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan: End Enforced Disappearances
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 is on August 30, 2014. The government of Turkmenistan should immediately inform the relatives of the disappeared of their fate and whereabouts and allow them access to their loved ones.