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Articles - Turkmenistan

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Turkmenistan

EU trade agreements ignore media repression

As a gas-rich country, Turkmenistan has used this leverage to secure preferential trade agreements with the European Union. As it charms the international community with the promise of new pipelines, it maintains a culture of fear with absolutely no criticism of the government in the media, report Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The regime also refuses to let journalists go abroad, says RSF.

Turkmenistan

LE KAZAKHSTAN ET LE TURKMÉNISTAN S'ENTENDENT SUR UN ÉCHANGE DE MÉDIAS

Turkmenistan

INDIGNACIÓN INTERNACIONAL POR MUERTE DE PERIODISTA

Turkmenistan

TOLLÉ INTERNATIONAL APRÈS LA MORT D'UNE JOURNALISTE

Turkmenistan

INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY OVER JOURNALIST'S DEATH

Many IFEX members have expressed outrage at the death of a journalist and human rights activist in a Turkmenistan prison and have called for an independent investigation into the circumstances that led to the tragedy. Turkmen authorities revealed on 14 September 2006 that Ogulsapar Muradova, a reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and an activist associated with the Turkmenistan Helsinki Foundation, died while in custody.

Turkmenistan

SIGNEZ UNE LETTRE DE PROTESTATION POUR AIDER À FAIRE LIBÉRER DES JOURNALISTES ET DES MILITANTS

Turkmenistan

FIRME UNA CARTA DE PROTESTA PARA AYUDAR A LIBERAR A PERIODISTAS Y ACTIVISTAS

Turkmenistan

TAKE ACTION! TURKMENISTAN: SIGN PROTEST LETTER TO HELP FREE JOURNALISTS, ACTIVISTS

26 July 2006

Turkmenistan

TEMORES POR SUERTE DE PERIODISTA DETENIDO Y ACTIVISTAS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS

Turkmenistan

ON S'INQUIÈTE DU SORT D'UN JOURNALISTE ET DE MILITANTS DES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE QUI SONT DÉTENUS

Turkmenistan

FEARS OVER FATE OF DETAINED JOURNALIST AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

Press freedom and human rights groups are increasingly concerned about the fate of journalist Ogulsapar Muradova, a correspondent for the US-funded radio station Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and human rights activists Annakurban Amanklychev and Sapardurdy Khajiev, who were arrested in Turkmenistan between 16 and 18 June. The three are associated with the Turkmenistan Helskinki Foundation for Human Rights.

Turkmenistan

L?OSCE DÉNONCE AVEC VIGUEUR LES MÉTHODES DE PROPAGANDE STALINIENNES

Turkmenistan

OSCE CRITICA MÉTODOS DE PROPAGANDA "ESTALINISTAS"

Turkmenistan

OSCE BLASTS STALINIST PROPAGANDA METHODS

Freimut Duve, the Organization for Security and Co-operation's (OSCE) Media Freedom Representative, has condemned the government of Turkmenistan for using the media to humiliate and terrorise political opponents and critics.

Turkmenistan

LIBRE EXPRESIÓN NO EXISTE, DICE ENVIADO DE OSCE

Turkmenistan

LA LIBERTÉ D?EXPRESSION N?EXISTE PAS, DIT UN ENVOYÉ DE L?OSCE

Turkmenistan

FREE EXPRESSION NON-EXISTENT, SAYS OSCE ENVOY

Turkmenistan lacks any freedom of expression. Censorship is total. Secrecy is becoming a nation-wide phenomenon and an "absolute state monopoly" exists over the media. This is the stark conclusion of the Organization for Security and Co-operation's (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve.

Turkmenistan

LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN SIGUE REZAGADA

Turkmenistan

LA LIBERTÉ D'EXPRESSION TOUJOURS AU RALENTI

Turkmenistan

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION STILL LAGGING

Freedom of expression suffers in Turkmenistan, where there are no independent newspapers, reports the Glasnost Defence Foundation (GDF). In a 25 January letter to President S. Niyazov, GDF writes, "Since October 1996, subscriptions to foreign, including Russian, newspapers and magazines are absolutely prohibited for private persons and non-governmental organisations." Along with the arrests of a number of journalists, GDF says, "these facts are evidence of the Turkmen authorities' unwillingness to observe principles of freedom of the press and freedom of expression."