Petition of Choganly Residents to the Olympic Council of Asia and National Olympic Committees of Member States «Dear ladies and gentlemen,  In 2010, it was decided that Ashgabat would host the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in 2017. At first, the people of Turkmenistan rejoiced at the news. An athletic event of this…

April 24, 2015, Human Right Watch (New York) — Authorities in Turkmenistan are forcing residents to dismantle privately owned satellite dishes, Human Rights Watch said today. A move that unjustifiably interferes with the right to receive and impart information and ideas, this serves to further isolate people in Turkmenistan, one of the most closed and…

19.04.2015 Civicsolidarity.org Turkmenistan authorities have started a new campaign of demolishing satellite dishes, aiming at fully blocking independent access to international TV and radio. The government of Turkmenistan has taken a decision to liquidate all privately owned TV and radio satellite dishes in the country, demanding all of them to be demolished, be they on…

In the end they started to praise the government, that at least it is safe in Turkmenistan and there is no war and so forth. A few hours later after such psychological pressure they allowed me to go but said that this would be my last warning, that next time they would charge me with spying. It took me several days to recover from this emotional pressure.

The police wrote out statements by hand and tried to pressure the elderly women present to sign them. When the home owner wrote a statement saying that officers were pressuring the women to sign statements they had not written, the officers insisted they were not. The home owner then tore up the statements. Officers confiscated the four hymnbooks the women had been using.

Narkuliyev’s release means that there are no longer any Jehovah’s Witnesses convicted and imprisoned in Turkmenistan as conscientious objectors. However, Jehovah’s Witness conscientious objector Soyunmurat Korov is being held «against his will» in military hospital in Ashgabad. Meanwhile, five Muslim men imprisoned on charges of religious extremism, were severely beaten on arrival in Seydi strict regime labour camp in early February. One suffered a broken hand, another a broken rib and damage to his lung.

The Tehran Times reported on February 1 that the incident happened in December when Turkmenistan’s navy «shot a number of fishermen in the Caspian Sea without prior warning.»

For the very first time, SECO has now been forced to release under Freedom of Information, that the retracted requests were destined for Ethiopia, Indonesia, Yemen, Qatar, Malaysia, Namibia, two licences for Oman, Russia, Chad, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, UAE, and China.

Mijatović warned that the law comes with restrictive regulations, including disproportionate limitations on online content for overly broad defined activities, such as making users liable for truthfulness of all information posted by them or for imprecisely defined propaganda of violence and cruelty.