Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ASHGABAT1103
2007-10-11 11:09:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ashgabat
Cable title:
TURKMENISTAN: CORRECTION TO LIST OF THOSE
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UNCLAS ASHGABAT 001103
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, DRL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: CORRECTION TO LIST OF THOSE
AMNESTIED
REF: ASHGABAT 1081
UNCLAS ASHGABAT 001103
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, DRL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: CORRECTION TO LIST OF THOSE
AMNESTIED
REF: ASHGABAT 1081
¶1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public
Internet.
¶2. (SBU) Post has learned from OSCE human dimension officer
Benjamin Moreau that Turkmenistan's former Ambassador to the
OSCE Batyr Berdiev was not/not listed among the almost 9,000
names of those amnestied on Tuesday (reftel). Moreau
confirmed that although a person of similar name and
sentencing date was listed, Batyr Atayevich Berdiev was born
in 1960 and was sentenced on December 18, 2002. Post will
continue to keep Berdiev's name at the top of the list of
political prisoners in need of advocacy.
¶3. (SBU) COMMENT: All Western and international missions
in Ashgabat continue to comb the amnesty list, which is
especially important this year because of the steps the new
government is taking to begin to improve its human rights
record. We caught the discrepency of the two similar names
when we tried to contact the Batyr Berdiev who was released.
END COMMENT.
HOAGLAND