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Forced loyalty, fear, and censorship: Turkmenistan’s relentless assault on civic freedoms
Published at
23.06.2025
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- censorship
- journalist detained
Turkmenistan: Economic hardship, repression, and targeting of critics at home and abroad
Published at
19.11.2024
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- censorship
Dual personality cult, arbitrary travel bans and zero-tolerance approach to public criticism
Published at
13.06.2024
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
Internet disruptions, deportations of Turkey-based activists and bread protests
Published at
04.12.2023
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Turkmenistan: UN human rights body issues important findings as the authorities continue to reign in dissent
Published at
02.06.2023
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
Increasing internet censorship and ongoing persecution of dissenting voices, despite some releases
Published at
30.12.2022
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- HRD threatened
Continued repression under new President
Published at
27.07.2022
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- violent protest
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
New repressive measures after January 2022 events in Kazakhstan, ahead of presidential elections
Published at
25.03.2022
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Turkmenistan’s government targets critics at home and abroad in its relentless crackdown on dissent
Published at
09.09.2021
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
Turkmenistan: New internet restrictions, new cases of persecution of outspoken activists
Published at
03.05.2021
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- harassment
- censorship
- HRD detained
- surveillance
- protest
While insisting it’s COVID-19 free, Turkmenistan renews efforts to clamp down on dissent
Published at
22.12.2020
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted