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Free Expression & the Law
When President Berdimuhamedov succeeded Saparmurad Niyazov in 2007, he tried to portray himself as a reformer committed to modernising his country but human rights are still being trampled underfoot ten years later.
Turkmenistan Highlights
Attacks
Censorship
A Turkmenistan alternative radio correspondent experienced harrowing harassment by police and unidentified attackers over grocery store lineup pictures.
Impunity
Attacks
Three of Chary Annamuradov’s brothers died under very suspicious circumstances within a year after he left the country in 1999. Altymurad Annamuradov, a father-of-five, was his last living brother.
Free Expression & the Law
Turkmen authorities dropped a 13-year travel ban against three family members of an exiled dissident, Pirkuli Tanrykuliev, allowing them to leave the country on June 4, 2016, a coalition of human rights groups said.
Reporters Without Borders
Human Rights Watch
Access to Information
Turkmenistan
24 April 2015
Human Rights Watch
Turkmenistan
Free Expression & the Law
22 May 2014
Human Rights Watch
Turkmenistan
Free Expression & the Law
13 May 2013
Human Rights Watch
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Free Expression & the Law
21 April 2013
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
Reporters Without Borders
Turkmenistan
Free Expression & the Law
14 January 2013
Human Rights Watch
Turkmenistan
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
Freedom of Assembly
9 October 2012
Human Rights Watch
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
Human Rights Watch
Reporters Without Borders
Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders
Turkmenistan
France
29 January 2010
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
Human Rights Watch
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
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