Turkmenistan · Owadandepe geňeşligi
Owadan-depe Prison
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Background
Owadan-depe (also Owadandepe, Owadan Depe, Ovadan Depe, 'beautiful hill' in Turkmen) is a prison for political inmates in the Ahal Region of Turkmenistan established by the regime of former President Saparmyrat Nyýazow to incarcerate political opposition supporters, former public officials and prisoners charged with supporting Wahhabism. Its official name is "Maximum Security Establishment AG-D/5" (AN-T/2 in other sources) and it is located in the Karakum Desert about 30 kilometres from the village (reported to have been depopulated by the authorities) and train station of the same name, 70 kilometres to the north-east of Ashgabat. The prison is situated in a lowland surrounded by hills about 6 kilometres from the nearest roads.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
2002
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Ministry of Internal Affairs (Turkmenistan)
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
2002
Region
Owadandepe geňeşligi
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
24%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.