The European Parliament Was Told Of Her Plight. Then This Turkmen Doctor Disappeared.

[rpannier]

Khursanai Ismatullaeva, a pediatrician in Turkmenistan, has been fighting a legal battle for nearly four years against her dismissal from a perinatal clinic near Ashgabat.

Now -- after the European Parliament heard details of her case against Turkmen authorities during a meeting on rights abuses in Central Asia -- she has gone missing in the custody of the police.

Late at night on July 16, just a day after the European Parliament was told by rights activists about her legal battle, a group of about 10 men arrested Ismatullaeva at her home in the town of Gokdepe.

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The independent news website Turkmen.news reports that the men confiscated telephones and computers from Ismatullaeva’s home before hauling her off to an unknown location.

https://www.rferl.org/a/turkmen-doctor-disappears/31374849.html

[MontanaMama]

1. This doesn't sound good at all.

There are people who have been “lost” in the Turkmenistan prison system for years. This woman might be a whistleblower on the corruption at her clinic.