Turkmenistan - Confined to a psychiatric hospital for talking to a radio station

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Amangelen Shapudakov, an 80-year-old activist, has been confined to a psychiatric hospital after accusing a local government official of corruption in an interview for Radio Azatlyq, the Turkmen-language service of Radio Free Europe (RFE), one of the few independent media still operating in Turkmenistan. “The inhuman and arbitrary way that Shapudakov is being treated is new evidence of this central Asian dictatorship's harsh repression of (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mardi 5 avril 2011