Turkmen authorities arrested journalist Khudayberdy Allashov, a freelance contributor to the Turkmen Service, and his mother on charges of possessing chewing tobacco.

A contractor in Vietnam with Radio Free Asia’s Vietnamese Service was beaten by police who also confiscated the contractor’s equipment, including his mobile phone and camera.

While she was speaking to the relatives of victims of a mining accident she had previously covered, Hatice Kamer was arrested on the suspicion of “propagandizing against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.”

The government blocked media accreditation of six Dushanbe-based correspondents over a report about the appointment of the Tajik president’s daughter to a government post.

The RFE/RL Turkmen correspondent was assaulted while in a rehabilitation facility northeast of Ashgabat.

Turkmenistan officials threatened to jail Radio Free Europe’s Turkmen service correspondent Rovshen Yazmuhamedov by revoking a suspended sentence he received in 2013.

Kazakh Service reporter Dilara Issa was visited by a police officer who claimed that he wanted “to be sure that everything was okay with her.”

Soltan Achilova was attacked and had her camera snatched away after she was released by police.

A freelancer for the Tatar-Bashkir Service, Suntsova, was invited for a “talk” with a local FSB officer and was questioned about her publications on the Idel.Realii website.

Radio Farda freelancer, Rasool Mahmood, was seriously injured on October 20 while reporting from the front lines of the Iraqi Army’s campaign to drive IS out of the city of Mosul.