15 February 2021
Felix Corley, Forum 18
A court in Lebap Region jailed 20-year-old Jehovah s Witness conscientious objector Nazar Alliyev for one year for refusing compulsory military service. He is the seventh to be jailed in 2021 so far and joins 14 other jailed conscientious objectors (9 of them serving second sentences). We deeply regret the criminalization of conscientious objection, four UN human rights Special Procedures wrote to the Turkmen government in December 2020, adding that Turkmenistan must provide meaningful alternative service . The regime has not responded to the UN.
On 10 February, a court in the eastern Lebap Region jailed 20-year-old Jehovah s Witness conscientious objector Nazar Alliyev for one year for refusing compulsory military service. He is the seventh conscientious objector known to have been jailed so far in 2021. All had offered to perform an alternative civilian service, but Turkmenistan does not offer this. Turkmenistan has rejected repeated Un
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Arriving on the eve of a working visit to Lebap province, President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov held an extended enlarged meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers at the Ruhiyet Palace, where some issues of state life were discussed.
Initially, the Speaker of the Parliament G. Mammadov briefed on the activities of the National Parliament on the further modernization of the country s legal and legal framework, which is being carried out in the context of the socially-oriented policy being implemented under the leadership of the Head of State, as well as on the explanatory and explanatory work.
Based on the proposals received from the Cabinet of Ministers, industry ministries and departments, the main directions of the further legislative activity of the Mejlis are determined. The working plan envisages improvement of the legislation in the field of protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, strengthening of law and order, increase of social and living standa