Religous Repression in Turkmenistan

There appears to be a noticable lack of religous toleration in the CIS. Here we are able to discern a continued increase in the lack of toleartion in the religous forum.

3 April 2006TURKMENISTAN: Jailed Krishna devotee transferred to women's camp

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service http://www.forum18.org

Shortly after her failed appeal against her seven year jail sentence for illegally crossing the border, charges her supporters reject, Hare Krishna devotee Cheper Annaniyazova was finally transferred on 23 January from the women's prison in the capital Ashgabad to the women's labour camp in Dashoguz in northern Turkmenistan, Forum 18 News Service has learned. Work in the labour camp is reported to be hard, while bribery to escape the worst work is rampant. Even acquiring a decent place to sleep requires bribes. Annaniyazova's state of health and conditions in the labour camp remain unknown. Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox church in Dashoguz, the only Orthodox place of worship in northern Turkmenistan, still cannot complete construction of a new church begun some years ago. Officials are questioning the parish's right to use the land, while the church's registration application has been denied. [read more...]

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