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Turkmenistan: Severe restrictions on freedom of movement
Remain AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT
16.08.2010 Amnesty International is concerned that Turkmenistan appears ever more determined to bar
human rights monitors and restrict the free movement of its population. This concern has been
heightened by recent reports from a source inside Turkmenistan about a new presidential decree
which prohibits the exit and entry to the country of thousands of named individuals. According to
the source the order, signed by Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, came
into force on 1 August and was sent to migration service, border guard, security force and police
stations around the country. |
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Appeal to the EU Use Human Rights Dialogue with Turkmenistan as Opportunity
to Insist on End to Intimidation and Harassment of Civil Society
17.06.2010 Brussels, Minsk, Sofia, Belgrade, Almaty, Moscow, The Hague, Oslo, 17 June 2010. On the eve of the third round of the EU-Turkmenistan Human Rights Dialogue, which is scheduled to take place in Ashgabad on 18 June 2010, the International Partnership for Human Rights, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, the Moscow Helsinki Group, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee appeal to the EU to use this meeting as an opportunity to publicly reiterate support for Turkmen civil society and to request concrete measures from Turkmen authorities to ensure that Turkmen civil society activists can carry out their important work without fear and repression. |
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 Regime urged to free imprisoned journalists for French human rights ambassador’s visit
26.05.2010 As French ambassador for human rights François Zimeray begins a three-day visit to Turkmenistan today, Reporters Without Borders would like to use the occasion to reiterate its concerns and its still frustrated hopes for press freedom in this former Soviet republic. |
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TURKMENISTAN: Jailed conscientious objectors punished again
25.05.2010 Four of Turkmenistan's five imprisoned Jehovah's Witness conscientious objectors were twice selected for more punishment in late 2009, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. |
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The report on religious freedom Chapter “Turkmenistan”
04.05.2010 Last week the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) under the US Department of State released the report on religious freedom in the world. |
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Turkmenistan’s opaque health system The report
13.04.2010 The people of Turkmenistan are being failed by their healthcare system, by their government, and by the international community. The system that is supposed to ensure their health is instead designed to conceal problems. This is not a case of individual practitioners failing to do their jobs but one that is far more systematic. |
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WORSHIP WITHOUT STATE REGISTRATION "ILLEGAL"
01.02.2010 Members of Protestant churches in different parts of Turkmenistan continue
to face raids and threats for meeting for worship, local Protestants have
told Forum 18 News Service. Officials have stated that meeting for worship
without state registration is "illegal". No official has been prepared to
explain to Forum 18 why these congregations have been harassed. | | |
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