Human Rights Watch: Activist Missing in Turkmenistan
November 19, 2021
November 19, 2021
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
"The police are here. If they find me, they'll take me in. I've gone into hiding." These are the last words Turkmen human rights activist, Chemen Ore, heard from Azat Isakov, a dissident from Turkmenistan who had been living in Russia for about six years. Ore, who lives in exile in Nepal, told Human Rights Watch that Isakov texted her this message from Russia on October 20. He's been . . .
"The police are here. If they find me, they'll take me in. I've gone into hiding." These are the last words Turkmen human rights activist, Chemen Ore, heard from Azat Isakov, a dissident from Turkmenistan who had been living in Russia for about six years. Ore, who lives in exile in Nepal, told Human Rights Watch that Isakov texted her this message from Russia on October 20. He's been . . .