Over the past year, the number of prisoners in Turkmen prisons has dropped to 33,500. According to ACCA sources in the Department of Execution of Sentences under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan, prisoners in Turkmen prisons are going through the most difficult times. Our sources explain this by the fact that in the […]
In the prison hospital MR-B/15, located in Mary region, about three thousand sick prisoners died within two years. ACCA learned about this from a source in the penitentiary system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan. Our sources said that since the beginning of the pandemic and the closure of borders, many medicines have […]
The family of human rights defender Mansur Mingelov, who is in critical condition in the LB / K11 colony, has been illegally evicted from the house in which they have lived for about 30 years, according to independent media in Turkmenistan. The father of the human rights activist Usen Mingelov was sent a notification signed […]
Activist Pigambergeldy Allaberdyev, sentenced by a court in Balkanabat to 6 years in prison on trumped-up charges, is in a difficult situation. As ACCA source informed, upon his arrival to the colony he was given a mattress and overalls, but there were no free beds and Pigambergeldy slept outside in front of the entrance to […]
According to independent media in Turkmenistan, Mansur Mingelov, a human rights defender for ethnic Baloch people living in Turkmenistan, is in critical condition. Mingelov is serving a sentence in the strict regime colony LB-K / 11 in Seydi, Lebap velayat. After suffering from tuberculosis, he developed acute osteomyelitis in the form of a complication. Relatives […]
In Turkmenistan, 2064 prisoners were pardoned on the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the country’s independence. However, some of them did not manage to live long at large. According to ACCA sources, in four velayats (Dashoguz, Mary, Akhal, and Balkan), 5 cases of death from coronavirus were recorded in regards to […]
In honor of Independence Day President Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov pardoned 2 064 prisoners. Six of them are citizens of foreign states. The corresponding decree was signed on September 20. Our sources from the Balkan and Dashoguz velayats of the country reported that political prisoners activist Murad Dushemov and activist of the Democratic Choice of Turkmenistan movement […]
A civil activist from Turkmenistan, Murat Dushemov, faces criminal charges under Article 108 of the Criminal Code of Turkmenistan “Intentional infliction of moderate harm to health”. Murat Dushemov was placed in a temporary detention center for 15 days for blocking traffic on the Ashgabat-Dashoguz highway. Together with Dushemov, his fellow travelers (Leila Nurmetova and her […]
The village of Gyzylgaya (urban community) is located 251 kilometers from the city of Balkanabad. There is a life-long psychiatric hospital in this village. The terminally ill, dissidents fighting with the authorities for their rights and those, from whom the security forces and relatives have taken away their homes, are sent to this hospital. The […]
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