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Turkmenistan|life|April 26, 2017 / 03:17 PM
Government controls all media in Turkmenistan: Reporters Without Borders

AKIPRESS.COM - Government controls all media in Turkmenistan and the rare Internet users are able to access only highly-censored online content, the Reporters Without Borders said in its the 2017 World Press Freedom Index.

The index ranked Turkmenistan 178th out of 180 countries with the score of 84.19 (0 is the best possible score and 100 the worst). 

"Harassment of the few journalists working clandestinely for media outlets based abroad keeps growing. Journalist Saparmamed Nepeskulyev has suffered in prison since July 2015. Fellow journalists have been arrested, tortured, or physically attacked in recent years. Several Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondents have had to stop working due to constant harassment. The authorities are continuing a campaign of removing satellite dishes, depriving the population of one of the remaining ways to access uncontrolled news coverage," the report says.

Other countries in Central Asia were ranked as follows: Kyrgyzstan — 89, Tajikistan — 149, Kazakhstan — 157, and Uzbekistan — 169.

Top 10 countries where media are most free:

1 Norway 
2 Sweden 
3 Finland 
4 Denmark 
5 Netherlands 
6 Costa Rica 
7 Switzerland 
8 Jamaica 
9 Belgium
10 Iceland

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