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 ...
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 ...
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 ...