Daria Atdaeva
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2019-100-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2019
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 38.969719
Longitude: 59.556278
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Turkmenistan
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 27 November 2018
- Type of record
- Named individual
- Gender
- Female
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- Yes
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
Russian national
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
for cooperation with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; On 27 April 2017, the Working Group transmitted, under its urgent action procedure, a case to the Government concerning Mr. Atdaev, allegedly disappeared in late January 2017 from the penal colony in Tedzhen, Ahal Province; Ms. Daria Atdaeva filed a complaint with the Working Group in April 2017, and has since maintained contact with the Working Group in order to clarify the fate and whereabouts of her husband.
This letter was sent one week after Ms. Atdaeva met with the Working Group in Geneva, and after she spoke about her husband’s case at a public side event at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
- Engagement with UN body
- Other
- UN Special Procedures: thematic
- Dates of engagement
- April 2017; September 2018
- Type of attempted engagement
- Participation in meeting on UN premises
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- 21 September 2018
- Reprisal information
In July 2018, after a first denial of visa, Ms. Atdaeva was authorized to visit her husband. However, on 21 September 2018, the Russian Embassy in Turkmenistan sent Ms. Atdaeva a letter stating that her husband was denied visitation rights because he violated internal rules of the penitentiary facility. This letter was sent one week after Ms. Atdaeva met with the Working Group in Geneva, and after she spoke about her husband’s case at a public side event at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Expulsion/Denied visa (foreigners)
- Other
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Government response dates
- 25 June 2019
- Government response content
On 25 June 2019 the Government responded to the allegations, stating that Ms. Atdaeva does not have any restrictions on entry into and exit from Turkmenistan. It noted that Mr. Atdaev was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Ashgabat on 6 March 2017 for violating the Criminal Code, including conspiracy to seize power, appeals for a violent change of the constitutional order, incitement of social, national or religious hatred, creation of an organized group, and criminal community and other criminal structures or participation in their activities. He is currently in the correctional colony AH/E-2 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and has had five short visits with his close relatives.
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0