Two NSM officers and a youth liaison officer Durdyev have questioned a 14 year old teenager Jumamurat Jumamuradov for over an hour without the presence of his parents or an attorney.
A boy, born in 2007, an 8th grader from secondary school №29 in the village “Taze usul”, Sayat etrap, Lebap velayat is a nephew of a civil society activist Rozybai Jumamuradov, residing in Turkey.
At 9 a.m.on 4 May an officer of the NSM (National Security Ministry) called the school principal Govkher Baltayev and requested that Jumamurat be immediately brought to the police station of the agricultural association “Lebap”.
The principal summoned a school teacher who has a car to bring Jumamurat Jumamuradov to the police station.However, she did not inform the boy’s parents.
At the police station three law enforcement officers interviewed the boy for over an hour to find out how often he kept in touch with his uncle, what the latter talked about and whether he had handed over some material discrediting the country or the President.
The law enforcement officers used swear words, shouted and threatened to imprison Jumamurat and his parents for keeping contact with their relative, who collaborates with representatives of the opposition movement abroad and “ideological infiltrators”.
Then Jumamurat’s mother was brought to the police station. She was interrogated and intimidated in the presence of her son. After that both of them had their photos taken (full face and profile) and were allowed to go home.
On 26 April, 2021 the NSM officers summoned Rozybai’s brother for an interview. On 21 March, 2021 unidentified individuals called the family and threatened to kill them unless they stop keeping in touch with Rozybai Jumamuradov.
Rozybai Jumamuradov was first pressured and persecuted by the Turkmen special services in 2009.At that time he was a stringer for the Turkmen Service of Radio Liberty (Radio “Azatlyk”).
Because of reprisal and persecutions he was forced to leave Turkmenistan and in 2011 he relocated to Turkey where he resides on legitimate grounds.He is currently taking part in political discussions on YouTube together with those opposing the Turkmen regime.The post Turkmenistan’s special services threaten to arrest relatives of a Turkmen dissident first appeared on Chronicles of Turkmenistan.