The management of the medical and labor dispensary puts up the patients of the institution for sale as a labor force every day. All funds from the sale are taken by the management and the patients work for food. According to ACCA sources, there are currently about 350 people in Lebap velayat’s Therapeutic-labor dispensary (TLD […]
In the LB/K-12 penal colony, a prisoner died last week. This was reported by ACCA sources from the Lebap velayat, close to the structures of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to ACCA sources, last week the temperature was abnormally high in Turkmenistan, in the city of Seydi the temperature reached +48 […]
The state of health of prisoner Dr. Khursanai Ismatullayeva, who was sentenced to 9 years in prison on trumped-up charges, has deteriorated sharply. This was reported to ACCA by sources in the Department for the Execution of Punishments under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan. ACCA was able to learn that Khursanai has a […]
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 […]
The head of the Communal services department of Ashgabat city, Nazar Gurbanov, was detained. At the same time, about 30 people, who are directly related to this department, were also detained. According to an ACCA source, Gurbanov’s personal driver died during interrogation after being tortured. The body of the driver was taken to the morgue […]
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 […]
Patients in a psychiatric clinic live in terrible conditions, systematically subjected to extortion by the medical staff. ACCA journalists managed to talk with patients and staff of one of the most closed institutions in Turkmenistan. The psychiatric dispensary is located in Balkanabad, the chief physician of which is Araz Hydyrovich Hydyrov. The dispensary has two […]
Turkmen media reported that the authorities have stepped up its crackdown on citizens for browsing opposition sites and using VPN servers to bypass blocking of relevant sites. The pressure was increased against the relatives of activists and oppositionists. People are constantly summoned for interrogations, threatened with arrests and long prison terms, and some people are […]
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