Release Ill Prisoner in Turkmenistan for Medical Treatment

Expand Alysher Muhametguliyev in an undated photo. © Turkmen.News Alysher Muhametguliyev, who is serving a 23-year prison sentence in Turkmenistan’s notorious Ovadan Depe prison, urgently needs medical care and should be released immediately for medical treatment. Muhametguliyev was arrested in April 2017 for incitement of religious hatred and other related charges. In June 2017, a court convicted him and nine others in a closed trial, and sentenced most of them to 23 years in prison – the first three to be served in a maximum security prison. They are all accused of affiliation with US-based…

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