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Turkmen Authorities Slammed For Threatening Relatives Of Exiled Dissidents
May 13, 2021 08:44 GMT
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has carefully constructed a personality cult to himself in the country.
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Four leading human rights groups have criticized the authoritarian leadership of Turkmenistan for threatening the relatives of dissidents living abroad.
In a joint
statement on May 13, Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR), International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), and Amnesty International said that in early May, Turkmen security officials questioned and threatened a 14-year-old boy in retaliation for the outspoken views of his uncle, Rozybai Jumamuradov, a former correspondent of RFE/RL in Turkmenistan who currently resides in Turkey.