Index on Censorship » Turkmenistan http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Turkmenistan http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Free expression in the news http://blog.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/03/free-expression-in-the-news-6/ http://blog.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/03/free-expression-in-the-news-6/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 09:04:03 +0000 Padraig Reidy http://blog.indexoncensorship.org/?p=12176 Free expression in the news

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“Attacks on journalists have threatened the flow of news to the outside world”, says Amnesty International, launching a report on threats to media workers in that country’s civil war. According to AP, killings of journalists in the conflict number “somewhere between 44 and 100, depending on who does the counting”. (AP)

Burma

A Muslim woman, Win Win Sein, has been charged with “religious defamation”, after she accidentally knocked over the alms bowl of a Buddhist monk (AFP)

France
The video for “College Boy” by rock band Indochine has been banned from TV for its portrayal of bullying and the crucifiction and shooting of a schoolboy (Huffington Post France)

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Turkmenistan
Government officials searched phones and cameras of spectators at a horse racing event in an attempt to suppress footage of President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov falling off his horse at the end of a race he “won” (The Times £)

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]]> http://blog.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/03/free-expression-in-the-news-6/feed/ 0 Turkmenistan: Reporter gets five years in prison http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/turkmenistan-reporter-gets-five-years-in-prison/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/turkmenistan-reporter-gets-five-years-in-prison/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:44:49 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=27582 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 [...]

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]]> 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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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/turkmenistan-reporter-gets-five-years-in-prison/feed/ 1 Free Microsoft licences to help combat censorship http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/10/free-microsoft-licences-to-help-combat-censorship/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/10/free-microsoft-licences-to-help-combat-censorship/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:49:32 +0000 Intern http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=16839 Microsoft is extending its program of giving free software licences to non-profit organisations. The initiative was first applied to Russia, after it was discovered that authorities were using software piracy inquiries as a method of suppressing independent media outlets and advocacy groups. The program will now include 500,000 NGOs in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, [...]

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]]> extending its program of giving free software licences to non-profit organisations. The initiative was first applied to Russia, after it was discovered that authorities were using software piracy inquiries as a method of suppressing independent media outlets and advocacy groups. The program will now include 500,000 NGOs in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Prior to the announcement NGOs could only obtain a free licence if they were aware of the program and followed the necessary procedure. According to Microsoft’s official blog announcement, the unilateral licence will last until 2012.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/10/free-microsoft-licences-to-help-combat-censorship/feed/ 0 Circus reopens in Turkmenistan, but ballet still banned http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/04/circus-reopens-in-turkmenistan-but-ballet-still-banned/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/04/circus-reopens-in-turkmenistan-but-ballet-still-banned/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:00:00 +0000 Intern http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=11531 The circus has finally returned to Ashgabat after a nine-year long absence, following the legacy of previous President Niyazov, who banned the cinema, opera, ballet, lip-synching, gold teeth, long hair and beards for men, as well as renaming all the days of the week and month after members of his family. On Friday, the first circus [...]

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]]> circus has finally returned to Ashgabat after a nine-year long absence, following the legacy of previous President Niyazov, who banned the cinema, opera, ballet, lip-synching, gold teeth, long hair and beards for men, as well as renaming all the days of the week and month after members of his family. On Friday, the first circus show was attended by current President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov as well as 1,500 children. Berdymukhamedov has reversed nearly all the bans, except for ballet, which was originally outlawed as the “scantily clad women offended Turkmen morality”.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/04/circus-reopens-in-turkmenistan-but-ballet-still-banned/feed/ 0 News staff sacked after insect invasion http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2008/02/news-staff-sacked-after-insect-invasion/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2008/02/news-staff-sacked-after-insect-invasion/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:42:00 +0000 Index on Censorship http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=255 Turkmenistan President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov fired 30 employees of the main state television channel after a cockroach crawled across the studio desk during the 9pm news programme, Vatan, the news website Kronika Turkmenistan reported on 21 February. The programme was repeated at 11pm, with officials from the ministry of culture only becoming aware of the cockroach’s [...]

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]]> The programme was repeated at 11pm, with officials from the ministry of culture only becoming aware of the cockroach’s cameo at 9am the following morning. Journalists, directors, camera operators and technical staff were among those dismissed. Read more here

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