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.
Press Release: 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.
As the Olympic Torch Arrives in Krasnodar, Russia Environmental Activists are Detained by the Police
As the Olympic Torch arrived today in Krasnodar, Russia, the capitol city of Krasnodar Region of Russia, the police were busy detaining peaceful environmental activists …
Evgeny Vitishko Has Become a Political Prisoner of the 2014 Olympics
Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus December 20, 2013 Judge Milinchuk sentenced Vitishko – an activist of the Environmental Watch of the North Caucasus – …
Crude Accountability 2003-2013: Defending Human and Environmental Rights in the Caspian and Black Sea Basins
Crude Accountability celebrates its 10-year anniversary championing human rights and environmental protection in the Caspian and Black Sea basins.
Prove They Are Alive: International Campaign on Disappeared Prisoners in Turkmenistan by the Turkmenistan Civic Solidarity Group
The Turkmenistan Civic Solidarity Group has begun the campaign, Prove They Are Alive, to hold the Turkmenistan government accountable for the fates of those prisoners who have been incarcerated since the early 2000s
Prove They Are Alive Campaign Seeks Proof That Former Turkmen Minister Is Alive
Radio Free Europe / Radio Free Liberty reports on the efforts of the Prove Their Alive campaign to ascertain the fate of 55 prisoners ten years after they were taken into custody in Turkmenistan: http://www.rferl.org/content/missing-turkmen-minister/25132776.html
The FSB Searches for Andrey Rudomakha, Leader of Environmental Watch, on the Basis of a Certain “Look”
Police come for the leader of Environmental Watch, based on illegal tapping of his phone.
Prove They Are Alive: Civil Society Activists in the OSCE Region Demand Information about Those Disappeared for Ten Years in Turkmenistan’s Prisons
This week, civil society activists launched a new campaign, Prove They Are Alive, at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the Organization for Security and …
Film – Five Kilometers of Indifference
Crude Accountability’s new film, “Five Kilometers of Indifference,” describes the many years of struggle of the residents of the village of Berezovka, in western Kazakhstan, …