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As a coalition of non-governmental organizations, we are writing to express our concern over the dire and worsening situation of religious freedom in Turkmenistan, and to urge you to secure ...
Like other basic rights, freedom of religion remains severely restricted in the Central Asian state of Turkmenistan. Religious communities live under constant surveillance and have to abide by ...
In Turkmenistan, the government prohibits independent religious activities and does not tolerate any divergence from state-endorsed Hanafi Islam. There have been several reports about the destruction ...
Violators of new law to be punished by fines or corrective labor. Turkmenistan is making life miserable for religious minorities. On November 10 last year, the government in the former Soviet ...
Turkmenistan’s longtime leader has unveiled a giant gilded statue of a dog on a busy traffic circle in the capital Ashgabat.
In Turkmenistan, religious freedom conditions "remained among the worst in the world and showed no signs of improvement," according to the report.
Andersen said that failing to designate Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan as countries of particular concern would call into question the Bush administration's commitment to religious freedom.
(RNS) Millions of religious and non-religious people were displaced last year according to the State Department’s latest religious freedom report, which for the first time cites Turkmenistan for ...
As Forum 18 News Service and Human Rights Watch have reported, there are at least 11 religious believers in Turkmenistan's Seydi labor camp in the Lebap region. The photos above were taken in 2007 by ...
Turkmenistan has the most repressive religious policy of any of the Central Asian republics. Only the Russian Orthodox Church and government-sanctioned Sunni Islam have been permitted to obtain ...
A team from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that has just returned from a weeklong trip to Turkmenistan says it heard encouraging things from the government on how it will ...
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