Turkmenistan: Officials Make Questionable Choices When Moral Policing – OpEd

By Karlygash Kabatova 

(Eurasianet) — Authoritarian excess is nothing new in Turkmenistan. But a recent government mandate that all female high school students in a seaside province undergo “virginity testing” marks another low point. The tests are not just an outrageous violation of individual rights, they are...