Turkmenistan News News Turkmenistan » Religion: Turkmenistan Tightens Religion Law
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 Central ...
News Turkmenistan » Religion: Tajikistan, Turkmenistan Again Designated as Religious Freedom Violators, Granted Waivers
As the new year dawned, the U.S. State Department issued its annual “Countries of Particular Concern” designations, calling out a dozen countries for engaging in or tolerating particularly severe ...
News Turkmenistan » Religion: Turkmenistan religious freedom
Overly broad and vague laws restrict freedom of religion or belief in the Central Asian states says USCIRF Chair Vicky Hartzler. Yet again, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – alongside Saudi Arabia and ...
News Turkmenistan » Religion: Everyday religious repression
Ashgabat (AsiaNews/F18) – Religious freedom violations are systematic in Turkmenistan, repression by the authorities is almost scientific, the Forum 18 news agency reports. Article 11 of ...