AI is concerned for the safety of those involved in an unprecedented anti-government demonstration reported to have taken place in Ashgabat on 12 July 1995. Fears ...
Khamidilla Islamov, a 23-year-old Uzbek national, was sentenced to death for murder on 9 November 1994 by the regional court of Akhalsky veloyat. An appeal against ...
Members of AI's Urgent Action network have received official replies about this action from the Ambassador of Turkmenistan in Washington. The Ambassador calims ...
Yusup Kuliyev, who was feared to have "disappeared" following his arrest on 20 October by agents of the Committee for State Security (KGB), was detained until around ...
Yusup Kuliyev has "disappeared" after reportedly being arrested by agents of the Committee for State Security (KGB) at his home in Ashgabat. No reason was given ...
In the two years since independence there have been persistent human rights violations. Current concerns include the repeated short-term detention of opposition ...
1. Bolivia: Former president guilty of genocide. 2. Sudan: Hundreds massacred in revenge attack. 3. Turkey: Police torture villagers in sub- zero conditions. 4. ...
Yury Yurevich Ayriyev faces imminent execution after his petition for clemency was turned down by the President of Turkmenistan, despite a leading newspaper in ...
Yury Yurevich Ayriyev was sentenced to death for murder in November 1992 by the regional court of Balkansky region sitting in Nebit Dag. An appeal to the Supreme ...
1. Central Asia: Human rights activists abducted; 2. Sierra Leone: Summary executions follow unfair trials; 3. China: The judicial massacre continues; 4. Worldwide ...