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Turkmen Case Highlights Plight Of Activists In Central Asia

Turkmen-Russian activist and environmentalist Andrei Zatoka has been spared a prison term, but is now unable to leave the country.

November 06, 2009 A court in Turkmenistan has overturned a five-year jail sentence handed down last week to a biologist whose environmental organization was shut down by the state in 2003. The case marks the second time in three years that Andrei Zatoka has been sentenced and detained before being released, and highlights the difficulties activists commonly encounter in Central Asia. More

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