TURKMENISTAN: Shagildy Atakov still on blacklist
Former prisoner Shagildy Atakov, together with his wife Artygul, their five children and his brother Hoshgeldi, all Baptists, are still on the blacklist in the central Asian republic of Turkmenistan.
Shagildy leads a small independent Baptist congregation in the village of Kaakhka, near Ashgabad. He was a Christian prisoner of conscience from December 1998 to January 2001.