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Open letter to German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle

Published on 16 November 2011Read

Sham trial

Five-year sentence for RFE/RL correspondent

Published on 5 October 2011Read

Confined to a psychiatric hospital for talking to a radio station

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Amangelen Shapudakov, an 80-year-old activist, has been confined to a psychiatric hospital (...)

Published on 5 April 2011 Read

Open letter to President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso

Mr. José Manuel Barroso - President of the European Commission Paris, 14 January 2011 Dear President Barroso, Reporters Without Borders, an (...)

Published on 14 January 2011 Read

Two journalists finally allowed to travel

According to the Turkmen news website Khronika Turkmenistana, husband-and-wife journalists Annamamed Myatyiev and Elena Myatiyeva were allowed to (...)

Published on 13 July 2010 Read

Regime urged to free imprisoned journalists for French human rights ambassador’s visit

As French ambassador for human rights François Zimeray begins a three-day visit to Turkmenistan today, Reporters Without Borders would like to use (...)

Published on 26 May 2010 Read

Turkmen President’s visit to France a key opportunity to urge improvements

France: Press Turkmen Leader to End Rights Abuses Turkmen President’s Visit a Key Opportunity to Urge Improvements President Nicolas Sarkozy (...)

Published on 28 January 2010 Read

“Mr. Berlusconi, yes or no, should you be cosying up to the Turkmen regime?”

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the secrecy surrounding Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s visit to Italy. The leader of one (...)

Published on 25 November 2009 Read

Gas contracts but no press freedom

Ogulsapar Muradova, the Turkmenistan correspondent of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, died three years ago, on 12 September 2006, after being (...)

Published on 16 September 2009 Read

Details of jail where two journalists have been held for past two and a half years

After months without any news, Reporters Without Borders has finally obtained information about the prison in which two journalists and human (...)

Published on 18 February 2009 Read

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Turkmenistan - 30 December 2011

One blogger denied parole, another pardoned

Turkmenistan - 29 December 2011

Court acquits journalist who interviewed Kurdish separatist

Turkmenistan - 27 December 2011

Istanbul court resumes trial of 10 journalists accused in Ergenekon conspiracy

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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