Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ASHGABAT1527
2008-11-25 11:38:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ashgabat
Cable title:
TURKMENISTAN: TRAVEL BAN FOR ORAZOV FAMILY
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ASHGABAT 001527
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/24/2018
TAGS: PGOV PHUM TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: TRAVEL BAN FOR ORAZOV FAMILY
MEMBERS CONTINUES
REF: A. ASHGABAT 0780
B. 07 ASHGABAT 1377
Classified By: Charge Richard M. Miles for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L ASHGABAT 001527
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/24/2018
TAGS: PGOV PHUM TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: TRAVEL BAN FOR ORAZOV FAMILY
MEMBERS CONTINUES
REF: A. ASHGABAT 0780
B. 07 ASHGABAT 1377
Classified By: Charge Richard M. Miles for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) On November 14, Svetlana Orazova, sister of
opposition activist Khudayberdiy Orazov, who is resident
overseas, met with POLOFF to discuss the family's continuing
inability to depart Turkmenistan. Orazova said at present,
her husband, Ovez Annayev, is in immediate need of medical
care for treatment of ischemia of the heart. She expressed
concern that his condition was becoming worse. According to
Orazova, doctors in Turkmenistan cannot and do not want to
treat him because they are afraid of MNB retaliation. In May
2007, Annayev was permitted to travel to Moscow to initiate
medical care for his heart condition. However, when he
returned to Ashgabat for a week in June 2008, authorities
barred his return to Moscow to continue treatment, and he has
been in Turkmenistan since then.
2. (C) She indicated that her family had sent letters this
year to the border service, Ministry of National Security,
migration service, and to President Berdimuhamedov, but none
brought a response. She also filed a case against the State
Service for the Registration of Foreign Citizens for
illegally barring their travel. All court judgments were
against the family and all their requests for inquiry were
refused. She said that she had also contacted the OSCE
Center and the Russian Embassy, but that neither received
responses from the MFA on the case.
3. (C) COMMENT: The family's continued travel ban suggests
that there has been little change in the government's
hardline against anti-government activists overseas. Post
will raise Annayev's case with the Turkmenistan government.
END COMMENT.
MILES
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN, DRL
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/24/2018
TAGS: PGOV PHUM TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: TRAVEL BAN FOR ORAZOV FAMILY
MEMBERS CONTINUES
REF: A. ASHGABAT 0780
B. 07 ASHGABAT 1377
Classified By: Charge Richard M. Miles for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) On November 14, Svetlana Orazova, sister of
opposition activist Khudayberdiy Orazov, who is resident
overseas, met with POLOFF to discuss the family's continuing
inability to depart Turkmenistan. Orazova said at present,
her husband, Ovez Annayev, is in immediate need of medical
care for treatment of ischemia of the heart. She expressed
concern that his condition was becoming worse. According to
Orazova, doctors in Turkmenistan cannot and do not want to
treat him because they are afraid of MNB retaliation. In May
2007, Annayev was permitted to travel to Moscow to initiate
medical care for his heart condition. However, when he
returned to Ashgabat for a week in June 2008, authorities
barred his return to Moscow to continue treatment, and he has
been in Turkmenistan since then.
2. (C) She indicated that her family had sent letters this
year to the border service, Ministry of National Security,
migration service, and to President Berdimuhamedov, but none
brought a response. She also filed a case against the State
Service for the Registration of Foreign Citizens for
illegally barring their travel. All court judgments were
against the family and all their requests for inquiry were
refused. She said that she had also contacted the OSCE
Center and the Russian Embassy, but that neither received
responses from the MFA on the case.
3. (C) COMMENT: The family's continued travel ban suggests
that there has been little change in the government's
hardline against anti-government activists overseas. Post
will raise Annayev's case with the Turkmenistan government.
END COMMENT.
MILES