Turkmenistan
RFE/RL Turkmen Contributor Released From Prison After Serving Term
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) contributor Saparmamed Nepeskuliev has been released from a Turkmen prison after serving a sentence on narcotics charges that numerous international observers have condemned as a brutal…
RFE/RL Turkmen Contributor Released From Prison After Serving Term
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) contributor Saparmamed Nepeskuliev has been released from a Turkmen prison after serving a sentence on narcotics charges that numerous international observers have condemned as a…
Attack On RFE/RL Journalist Refutes Turkmen Assurances At UN
A statement by Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry claiming there is no persecution of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists, made two days before veteran correspondent Soltan Achilova was violently assaulted in the latest…
Attack On RFE/RL Journalist Refutes Turkmen Assurances At UN
A statement by Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry claiming there is no persecution of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists, made two days before veteran correspondent Soltan Achilova was violently assaulted in…
RFE/RL Reporters Faced ‘Relentless Pressure’ In 12 Of 23 Countries In 2017
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have been targeted in no fewer than 38 incidents in at least 12 of the countries they cover in 2017.
RFE/RL Correspondent Achilova Threatened With Death In Turkmenistan
RFE/RL Turkmen correspondent Soltan Achilova reports (in Turkmen) she was threatened with death on July 29.
RFE/RL Turkmen Journalist Marks Two Years Behind Bars
Turkmen journalist Saparmamed Nepeskuliev disappeared two years ago this week, and remains in a remote prison serving a three-year sentence on charges that human rights groups and a U.N. panel…
Threats To RFE/RL Journalists Multiply In 2017
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have been targeted in hostile incidents in at least 10 countries in 2017, in what the company called “relentless pressure” on its journalistic mission.
RFE/RL Welcomes Release of Turkmen Journalist, Calls For Additional Steps
RFE/RL welcomed the release from prison of Turkmen contributor Khudayberdy Allashov and his mother.
RFE/RL Condemns Turkmenistan’s Treatment of Journalists
WASHINGTON — On the eve of presidential elections in Turkmenistan on Feb 12, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has condemned a government campaign that has subjected its correspondents and their family…