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Turkmenistan pardons over 600 prisoners, including 26 foreigners
Almaty, Kazakhstan: Reclusive Turkmenistan´s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has pardoned 612 prisoners including 26 foreign citizens ahead of festivities marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, state media reported Saturday.
A state television report in the gas-rich country **ted Berdymukhamedov had signed the order of amnesty "to further strengthen the unity and solidarity of Turkmen society." The report did **t clarify the nationalities of foreign prisoners released under the amnesty but Turkmenistan´s prisons are k**wn to hold citizens of neighbouring countries convicted of smuggling and trafficking offenses. Last year the government passed a law excluding prisoners convicted of drug trafficking from state amnesties. The ex-Soviet country, which rights groups regularly list as one of the world´s least free states, often carries out pardons ahead of major state holidays. On Thursday a number of prominent rights groups signed a letter addressed to Berdymukhamedov asking him to release a local journalist incarcerated for almost a year on narcotics charges. Saparmamed Nepeskuliev who worked for Radio Free Europe´s Turkmen service was convicted on the "fabricated" charges on August 31 and has **t been in contact with relatives since September, the letter stated. The letter signed by RFE and groups including Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch also recalled the fate of a**ther RFE contributor Ogulsapar Muradova who died in a Turkmen jail in 2006. Turkmenistan has the world´s fourth largest k**wn reserves of natural gas and borders Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Turkmenistan pardons over 600 prisoners, including 26 foreigners || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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