Turkmenistan: 18 Men Tortured, Sentenced in Unfair Trial

Expand Turkmenistan's capital city Ashgabat. © 2015 Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (Wikimedia Commons) (Berlin) - A Turkmen court sentenced 18 men to up to 25 years in prison on February 8, 2017, in what appears to be a purge of people associated with Turkish schools believed to have been previously affiliated with the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, Human Rights Watch said today. In a statement published on May 26, seven organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Wat...