Turkmenistan: Reporter gets five years in prison

06 Oct 2011

A Radio Free Europe correspondent in Turkmenistan has been sentenced to five years in prison. Dovletmurad Yazguliyev was sentenced yesterday on charges of inciting his sister-in-law to attempt to commit suicide. Yazguliyev was detained on 27 September and his family were pressured to sign a statement backing up the charges against him. Yazguliyev and his colleagues believe that the arrest is an attempt to silence the journalist for his critical reports: he was one of the first journalists to break news of deadly arms storage explosions in the eastern town of Abadan on 7 July.

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  1. neweurasia.net » Turkmen RFE/RL journalist sentenced to half a decade

    October 9, 2011 at 15:22

    [...] on October 6th, Index on Censorship said: “Yazguliyev and his colleagues believe that the arrest is an attempt to silence the journalist [...]

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