Tajikistan: Impunity For Torturers Continues
By Mushfig Bayram Impunity for multiple instances of torture of Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Protestants continues. Conscientious objector and prisoner
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Russia: Currently Jailed, Serving Suspended Sentences, Fined
By Victoria Arnold Eleven people are serving prison terms and eight suspended sentences under the Extremism Law for exercising their
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Russia: 39 Trials With 87 Defendants
By Victoria Arnold For 87 Jehovah’s Witnesses on trial in 39 cases for “continuing the activities of a banned extremist
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Tajikistan: Journalist’s Jailing Based On ‘Complete Fabrication’
By Mushfig Bayram A Dushanbe court jailed journalist Daler Sharipov for one year for “extremism” and “inciting religious hatred” for
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Uzbekistan: Despite Coronavirus Lockdown Officials Continue Literature Raids
The authorities are using a new March Criminal Code Article 244-5 (“Dissemination of knowingly false information about an infectious disease”)
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Turkmenistan: Raids, Fines For Religious Meetings
By Felix Corley Police raids have continued on religious believers meeting in homes. Officers in February raided two homes in
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Crimea: ‘Unjustifiable To Jail Someone For Reading The Bible’
By Felix Corley Two men from Yalta and Dzhankoi have become the first Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea to be
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Russia: Impunity For Officials Who Torture?
By Victoria Arnold Officials suspected of torturing Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses do not appear to have been – as Russia’s
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Russia: Pentecostal Churches Facing Possible Closure, Destruction
By Victoria Arnold Three Pentecostal congregations in different regions of Russia may be barred from using their church buildings because
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Tajikistan: Alleged ‘Extremist’, Alleged Shia, Jail, Torture
By Mushfig Bayram On 29 December 2019 Tajikistan arrested 36-year-old Muslim Khayriddin Dostakov at Dushanbe Airport as he returned from
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