According to an independent source from Turkmenistan, on the evening of July 16, doctor Khursanai Ismatullayeva was taken away from her home in an unknown direction. According to the source, about 10 people came for her late in the evening. Some of them were in civilian clothes, others in police uniforms. Unknown persons confiscated all […]
The United Coalition of free press, created in 2019 by the International Media Council, added Nurgeldy Khalykov to the monthly list of persecuted journalists. Khalykov was sentenced to 4 years in prison on false charges of fraud for his collaboration with the independent news website turkmen.news. Nurgeldy was arrested for having sent to turkmen.news a […]
The authorities of Turkmenistan continue to hide the real death rate among the population from COVID-19. An ACCA source said that only in the city of Balkanabat, the same number of people died in a year as in the past 5.5 years. Approximately the same statistics is in other cities of the country. We checked […]
According to independent sources in Turkmenistan, the persecution of those, who use VPN services to obtain information, has intensified in the country, and underage schoolchildren are among the persecuted. Directors, heads of the teaching department and teachers, together with employees of the Ministry of National Security, are searching and catching students who provide services for […]
Turkmen media reported that the authorities have stepped up its crackdown on citizens for browsing opposition sites and using VPN servers to bypass blocking of relevant sites. The pressure was increased against the relatives of activists and oppositionists. People are constantly summoned for interrogations, threatened with arrests and long prison terms, and some people are […]
President of Turkmenistan Berdimuhamedow signed a decree pardoning 815 prisoners, three of them are foreign citizens. This action is timed to the 29th anniversary of the country’s independence celebrated on September 27th. The decree was signed at an extended government meeting on September 24. Berdimuhamedow instructed regional governors to provide jobs for those pardoned, even […]
Since last year, the Foundation for Justice for Journalists (JFJ, UK) has been regularly monitoring attacks against journalists, bloggers, and network activists in Central Asia. In March 2020, the Foundation and Index of Censorship, an international non-profit organization, announced a joint global initiative to document and analyze media rights violations related to the coronavirus pandemic. […]
The Turkmen authorities are increasing censorship and control over the Internet. ACCA sources said police officers raided markets in the cities of Dashoguz, Turkmenabat (formerly Chardzhou), and Balkanabat (formerly Nebit-Dag) last week. The raids were carried out in electronic equipment repair and technical support workshops. Computers, documentation, and address books with phone numbers of clients […]
The Democratic Civil Union of Turkmenistan created the website 14 years after the registration of the organization in the Netherlands. According to Vyacheslav Mamedov, the chairman of the Democratic Civil Union of Turkmenistan, the official propaganda of Turkmenistan sometimes creates the impression among residents of neighboring countries that Turkmenistan is a country with cheap gas, […]
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