Turkmenistan Imprisons Reporter for Five Years

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By: James Kilner | Telegraph.co.uk

Turkmen authorities convicted Dovletmyrat Yazkuliyev of encouraging a family member to attempt suicide at a court hearing on Wednesday.

But his employers, the US-government funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), said the authorities had fabricated the charges to punish him for covering a series of blasts at a town outside Ashgabat in July which the government had tried to cover up.































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