Urgent Action Update: Kasymberdi Garaev Returned Home (Turkmenistan: UA 151.19)
November 13, 2019Kasymberdi Garaev was summoned by police and went missing on 24 October after the publication of an online article in which he was cited describing the problems he faced as a gay man in Turkmenistan. On the evening of 6 November, he contacted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to say he had been able to return home.