Luhansk: ‘The Last Mass Was In April 2020’
By Felix Corley Catholics in the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic have been denied a priest and the possibility to receive
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Uzbekistan: Parents Told Not To Teach Muslim Faith To Their Children
By Mushfig Bayram In late April the Deputy Headteacher of one state school in the southern city of Bukhara rang
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Uzbekistan: Shia Muslim Fined For Having Shia Material
By Mushfig Bayram Police in Samarkand replaced Criminal Code charges against Shia Muslim Rashid Ibrahimov with Administrative Code charges. On
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Crimea: Longest Jail Term So Far
By Felix Corley Of the four jail terms handed down in Crimea to punish the exercise of freedom of religion
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Uzbekistan: Fines, Magazine Destruction, Short-Term Jailing, Beard Shaving, Threats
By Mushfig Bayram A Tashkent court fined a Baptist for offering Christian magazines to neighbours in her home and ordered
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Uzbekistan: ‘A Disguised Old Criminal Code With No Real Changes’ – Analysis
By Mushfig Bayram and Felix Corley Members of religious communities and human rights defenders criticise the draft new Criminal Code
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Uzbekistan: 7 Prisoners Of Conscience Jailed For Between 11 And 4 Years
By Mushfig Bayram Seven Muslim men who met in the capital Tashkent to discuss Islam were in January 2021 transferred
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Uzbekistan: Five Years Jail For Defending Muslims’ Freedom Of Religion And Belief
By Mushfig Bayram After repeatedly defending the freedom of religion and belief of Muslims, including demonstrating outside President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s
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Turkmenistan: Another Second-Time Jailing, Four more Imminent?
By Felix Corley On 11 January, four weeks after his arrest, a court in Turkmenistan’s eastern Lebap Region sentenced 20-year-old
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Russia: Court Jails Jehovah’s Witnesses Members For Belonging To ‘Extremist Organization’
By Victoria Arnold Eight Jehovah’s Witnesses and one Muslim Nursi reader are serving labour camp terms as “extremists”. Six more
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