Turkmenistan

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The rights to freedom of expression and association remained severely curtailed as the authorities sought to control the flow of information, suffocate civil society and punish all forms of peaceful dissent at home and abroad. Women, girls and LGBTI people faced arbitrary restrictions to their rights, freedoms and bodily autonomy. Reports continued of state-imposed forced labour in the cotton harvest. There was no meaningful action to combat climate change.

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Abolitionist for all crimes

Does not use the death penalty

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