Ranked 178th in annual press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders
1 February 2014
Censorship prohibited, yet media freedom remains elusive
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2014
Ranked 196th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 March 2013
"Turkmenistan’s main Internet service provider, run by the government, reportedly blocks undesirable websites and monitors users' activity"
Freedom House
16 January 2013
Joint HRW submission on Turkmenistan with Freedom Now and the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights.
Human Rights Watch
31 October 2012
"State control of the country’s five TV stations, 25 newspapers and 15 magazines is absolute"
Reporters Without Borders
2 May 2012
"For the first time, netizens have managed to breach the censorship wall of one of the world’s most closed countries"
Reporters Without Borders
12 March 2012
"The war of information 2.0 has now begun"
Reporters Without Borders
26 January 2012
"The country remains closed to independent scrutiny, media and religious freedoms are subject to draconian restrictions, and human rights defenders face constant threat of government reprisal"
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2012