Turkmenistan: Stop Religious Persecution . NGO Coalition Call on US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to designate Turkmenistan as a "country of particular concern" ...

Turkmenistan's Constitution provides for freedom of religion, but attacks on minority religious groups have been common practice since the country gained independence in 1991.

Islam is Turkmenistan's main religion and Islamic traditions are embedded into local culture and practices. According the the American Foreign Policy Council's World Almanac on Islamism:. In the ...

Turkmenistan is making life miserable for religious minorities.On November 10 last year, the government in the former Soviet Central Asian state passed a religion law even more restrictive than ...

Turkmenistan’s longtime leader has unveiled a giant gilded statue of a dog on a busy traffic circle in the capital Ashgabat. Depicted standing proudly on a plinth, the gold-coated canine is an ...

A new report on religion in Turkmenistan shows a complete lack of freedom to practice any faiths except for Sunni Islam and Russian Orthodox Christianity. All of the country's other religious ...

The Bush administration must not repeat its mistake of failing to designate Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan "countries of particular concern" for religious freedom, Human Rights Watch said today in a ...

(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 ...

Yet again, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – alongside Saudi Arabia and Pakistan – have been granted waivers from sanctions related to their religious freedom violations.