
Turkmenistan: A Little-Known Nation With Big Human Rights Violations
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http://www.rferl.org/content/turkmenistan-tortured-by-hunger-prison-kyarizov/27408793.html
Ask just about anyone in the Western world to point to Turkmenistan on a world map and watch them instantly become baffled. Little do they know, however, that the little hermit state of Turkmenistan has some of the worst human rights abuses in the world. World Press Freedom Index ranked the Central Asian nation at just one spot above North Korea, and one spot below Syria in its 2015 report.