Turkmen authorities urged to free RFE/RL journalist held incommunicado

On the eve of bilateral talks between the State Department and Turkmenistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashid Meredov, seven media and human rights organizations have written to the Foreign Minister to call for the immediate release of journalist Sapermamed Nepeskuliev, detained incommunicado for the past three months.

Dear Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov,

Dear Ambassador Meret Orazov,

We, the undersigned, are writing on the eve of the annual bilateral consultations between th ........