Owadan-depe state prison

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  «Ovadan-Depe» with the Turkmen language can be translated into Russian as «picturesque hill». So-called political prison Niyazov Saparmurat created specifically for members of the political opposition and major officials. Located Ovadan-Depe prison, 70 km north from Ashgabat - in the sands of the Karakum. Niyazov personally participated in the design and supervised the process of its construction. The design capacity of the prison - about 150 prisoners. In Prison «Ovadan-Depe» are three rings of fencing and security, the passage through which, respectively, through three checkpoints (PPC). External perimeter ( «first ring») prison «Ovadan-Depe» of special military unit of MIA (soldiers), the barracks are located directly next to the prison. The second and third ring pants protected by law enforcement officials. Access through the second ring to the third (internal), is strictly limited - there may be only the law enforcement officers on special identification cards. Access through the third ring - to the prison only after a mandatory additional confirmation of admission, which takes place at each entrance to the prison. Protection of the prison is in order режимном MUP, prosecutors and DHS (Department of Homeland Security) - is done to ensure that employees of these departments have followed one after another and none of the services of «single» no control over the situation in prison. Employees of these departments are changing shifts in a mosaic manner, without being able to know in advance of the date of his duties. About zastuplenii duty to inform them a few hours before the start. Any contact with the inmates the prison staff is strictly prohibited. The penalty for attempting to contact the prisoners are very severe, until the conclusion. However, the existing conditions of detention - Karakum terrible summer heat, closed (chamber) content, the lack of air conditioning in poorly ventilated cells, unsanitary conditions, failure to take a shower, bad food - and of itself is torture. To this can be added in a portable hard transcontinental climate of cold, - a part of the prison cells were not heated. In addition, prisoners are not provided full medical care. Some cameras have a one and a half meters in height - that does not allow the prisoner stood up in growth, and he is forced to move the camera in polusognutom condition. After several weeks, this is a very valid burden on the psyche. By particularly sophisticated torture could be the fact that the prisoners are completely deprived of any information on events outside the prison, they do not know anything about what is happening in the world - they banned the newspaper, radio, television, and they do not speak any their guards. Prisoners Depe Ovadan-banned visits from relatives, as well as completely denied access to representatives of the Red Cross, Red Crescent and other humanitarian, human rights and other international organizations and observers. According to leaking information, a number of prisoners, due to harsh conditions of detention, torture and lack of medical care, died of disease and exhaustion. Relatives of prisoners Ovadan-Depe is usually not informed of the death of the prisoners and they were not given their bodies. In the list of presumed dead or killed by the number of known turkmenistanskie citizens, including citizens of Russia. The burials are carried out an unknown manner and at an unknown location. According to one of the information in the prison Ovadan-Depe works crematorium and the ashes of earth in the courtyard tyurmy.

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