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February 25, 2008

Another Turkmen Amnesty Excludes Political Prisoners

by Inga Sikorskaya, IWPR, Kyrgyzstan - In the latest mass release of prisoners in Turkmenistan, no political prisoners of note were freed. Lawyers and human rights activists say this will not happen until the authorities change repressive legislation on treason, which automatically rules out the possibility of amnesty.

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