According to sources of Alternative Turkmenistan News (ATN), authorities in the capital of Turkmenistan have tacitly permitted foreign diplomats and the top management of large enterprises to rent housing. They were forced to compromise as a result of the impossible situation persisting in the last few months. At the meeting of the Cabinet on February…

The unexpected check of combat readiness in the absence of information gave rise to a variety of assumptions both locally and in the other regions of the country.

According to the incoming reports, the immigration service has carried on with the raids. The fact is supported by the note submitted by the Malaysian Embassy in Turkmenistan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ATN obtained its copy.

Alternative Turkmenistan News (ATN) and International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), partners in the Cotton Campaign, today filed a formal complaint against the importation of cotton goods from Turkmenistan, all of which are made with forced labor.

The new regulation has not been published anywhere, and yet it has already been given effect. The ongoing campaign in Ashgabat to identify people, who came to the capital to find work, or those who already work there, is essentially the president’s order being enforced by the local authorities.

A man who shared a prison cell with Turkmen journalist and civic activist Saparmamed Nepeskuliev, sentenced to three years in July 2015 on false charges of illicit trafficking of drugs, has spoken on camera to Alternative Turkmenistan News (ATN).

Animals found in the streets, or pets who simply happened to run out of their homes, are subject to immediate extermination, often by methods of extreme cruelty.

«H&M under no circumstances accepts underage workers and/or forced labor being used anywhere in our value chain, including in cotton cultivation. Unfortunately this is sometimes the case in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and H&M does therefore not accept conventional cotton from Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan or Syria in our products,” the statement says.

In a statement to TT, IKEA said, «We want all of our materials produced with respect for people and the environment,» noting that since September of last year, IKEA only uses cotton from “more sustainable farming.”