Turkmenistan: 16 conscientious objectors freed
(10.05.2021) In a surprise move, the regime freed from prison on 8 May all 16 of Turkmenistan’s known jailed conscientious objectors in a prisoner amnesty. The 16 – all of them Jehovah’s Witnesses – were serving jail terms of between one and four years. They are among the very few prisoners of conscience - including political prisoners - ever to be freed in the regular prisoner amnesties.