Jennifer Lopez Sang ‘Happy Birthday’ for Turkish Dictator

A Human Rights Watch report has called Turkmenistan “one of the world’s most repressive” regimes. Internet traffic is monitored and reporters being jailed is the norm. Says HRW, “Media and religious freedoms are subject to draconian restrictions, and human rights defenders and other activists face the constant threat of government reprisal. The authorities continue to use imprisonment as a tool for political retaliation and to restrict peoples’ right to travel freely.”

So it’s no surprise that when Turkmenistan leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov celebrated his 56th birthday on Sunday, it was with a special performance from Jennifer Lopez. How else was she going to get people to clap for her if not through fear and intimidation.

Reports say Lopez was paid $1 million plus expenses for the performance. She dressed in a traditional Turkmen dress to sing Happy Birthday to the president and performed a few of her other hits. Thus instilling more sadness into this country than Gurbanguly ever could.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HAbeEuW60CU

Lopez’s publicist says the event was vetted by staff and had they known of any human rights issues, they would not have attended. Her publicist also told The AP that the event was hosted by the China National Petroleum Corp. and wasn’t a political event. That totally explains why she sang happy birthday to the Turkmenistan leader.