ASHGABAT (TCA) — A presentation of a new book by Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, “Turkmenistan – the heart of the Great Silk

BISHKEK (TCA) — The journalism watchdog group Reporters Without Borders has called on the European Union to press for greater media freedom as it

BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court dealt a heavy blow to freedom of speech on November 30 by upholding three defamation rulings punishing

BISHKEK (TCA) — Court officers in Kyrgyzstan have raided the independent television station NTS, which is owned by opposition politician and

BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s opposition politician and former presidential candidate Omurbek Babanov has called efforts to impound the property

BISHKEK (TCA) — Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization that monitors the status of freedom around the world and advocates for

KABUL (TCA) — An Afghan media watchdog says that 2017 was the “bloodiest” year ever for journalists and other media personnel working in

TASHKENT (TCA) — An Uzbek journalist and rights activist, Dilmurod Saiid, was released from prison on February 3. Saiid was arrested in February

BISHKEK (TCA) — A journalist in Kyrgyzstan has been charged with illegally obtaining commercial secrets and making them public as a result of an

TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek opposition journalist Yusuf Rozimurodov has been released from prison after spending 19 years behind bars, human rights

BISHKEK (TCA) — A coalition of 29 press freedom organizations from around the world has called on Kyrgyzstan authorities to drop defamation

TASHKENT (TCA) — Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a new report that journalists and other critics of the government in Uzbekistan remain under

TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek journalist Bobomurod Abdullaev has denied plotting to overthrow the government in a high-profile trial that is being seen

ALMATY (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan have raided the editorial offices of Forbes Magazine's local edition, briefly detaining a senior

BISHKEK (TCA) — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) launched its annual Free the Press campaign on April 2, seeking to raise awareness

ALMATY (TCA) — The chief editor of the Kazakh online news website Ratel.kz says he has been officially named a suspect in a high-profile libel

ASTANA (TCA) — Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Kazakh government to decriminalize defamation and to stop using libel laws "to harass

ASTANA (TCA) — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Kazakh authorities to dismiss criminal defamation suits against two

BISHKEK (TCA) — The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, on April 27 welcomed a number of positive steps for media freedom

KABUL (TCA) — The United States decried the killing of journalists in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan and accused the militants of trying to