By Felix Corley | Forum 18 Security personnel at Ashgabad Airport detained a woman working in Turkey bringing in Arabic Korans as gifts for relatives, questioning her for 24 hours. She was later banned from leaving Turkmenistan. Police are again ... Full Article

By Felix Corley | Forum 18 Two conscientious objectors, both Jehovah’s Witnesses, were jailed for one year in January. One had just completed a corrective labour sentence. These are the first jailings of conscientious objectors since 2014. ... Full Article

By World Watch Monitor It’s been over a year since the Central Asian state of Turkmenistan added further restrictions to its Religion Law, but the changes were introduced in such secrecy that few knew about them until well after the event. It ... Full Article

By Felix Corley | Forum 18 At least two Muslim prisoners of conscience died in Turkmenistan’s top security Ovadan-Depe prison in the second half of 2016, the exile Alternative Turkmenistan News noted on 10 January. Lukman Yaylanov died in ... Full Article

By Felix Corley & John Kinahan | Forum 18 Freedom of religion and belief, with interlinked freedoms such as expression, association, and assembly, continues to be seriously restricted in Turkmenistan. Forum 18’s survey analysis ... Full Article