Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Naz Nazar is the former director of RFE/RL's Turkmen service. Her work has appeared in The Washington Times, among others. In 2011, she was awarded the Best Bloggers Worldwide 2011 prize from the Foreign Press Center of the US State Department for her work on Turkmenistan and the region.
A mix of traditional techniques and new technologies allows the Turkmen regime to follow its citizens’ every move.
In this highly isolated Central Asian state, “Turkish schools” guaranteed good education and a relationship with the...