Officials of the Ministry of National Security took hostage the family of an activist and critic of the Turkmen regime, Aziz Mamedov, who currently resides in Turkey.
In the city of Bayram-Ali (Mary region), on August 5, the officers of the Ministry of National Security detained two sisters of the activist Mamedov and their husbands. According to ACCA sources, family members are under severe psychological pressure. Mamedov’s sisters are threatened with dismissal and imprisonment, and the children are promised to be sent to an orphanage.
In relation to other relatives, the security forces used physical force during interrogation. As it turned out, the main demand of the employees of the Turkmen special services is a video message from Aziz Mamedov to President Berdymukhamedov with a plea for forgiveness.
In a conversation with Aziz, his sisters said that they would commit suicide if he refused to comply with the special services’ demand to ask the President for forgiveness. At the moment, the home of Mamedov’s relatives has been monitored around the clock, the phones are being tapped.
Also, employees of the Ministry of National Security arrested Mamedov’s father, but they let him go home due to his grave state of health. Mamedov Sr. suffers from a severe form of bronchial asthma and an acute form of coronary heart disease.
Aziz Mamedov himself was abducted on August 1 by employees of the consular section of the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Istanbul, where he was beaten, and received minor slight wounds from the employees of the consulate.
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