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Five Sunni Muslims jailed in Balkanabat for 12 years each in August 2017 for meeting to study the works of the theologian Said Nursi were transferred recently to new labour camps. The strict-regime labour camp at Bayramali in Mary Region, where four of the five are held, also holds another jailed Nursi reader, 47-year-old Begench Dadebayew. At least two among more than 60 men jailed from 2013 for participating in a Sunni Muslim group in Turkmenabat have been freed after completing their jail terms.

The regime closed all Islamic bookshops in Dushanbe in August and September, as well as some publishers of Islamic literature. The regime has also continued demands that non-Muslim religious communities complete intrusive questionnaires. Some suggested family information is being collected "so that it will be easy to identify us and our family members if in future they decide to target us". "All mosques are under total state control," human rights defenders observed, "so the regime does not need to insist that mosques complete such questionnaires."

Almost all top managers and at least one of the main beneficiaries have been detained.

The president went on saying: “Fairness should always be present in people's lives and heads. And the prime cost… You are right when you say it is necessary to reduce prime costs in order to be richer. But it has to be fair. You cannot change my mind.”

Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a $351 million flood recovery package to assist in beginning clean up efforts in parts of Victoria, while other locations remain at risk of further flooding.