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
Read moreBy Mushfig Bayram After repeatedly defending the freedom of religion and belief of Muslims, including demonstrating outside President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s
Read moreBy Felix Corley On 11 January, four weeks after his arrest, a court in Turkmenistan’s eastern Lebap Region sentenced 20-year-old
Read moreBy Victoria Arnold Eight Jehovah’s Witnesses and one Muslim Nursi reader are serving labour camp terms as “extremists”. Six more
Read moreBy Felix Corley “My husband does not admit any guilt,” says Svetlana Sakada, wife of one of four Jehovah’s Witnesses
Read moreBy Olga Glace Before the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Belarus on 2 November, Forum 18
Read moreBy Felix Corley On 17 September, the City Court in the commercial capital Almaty again upheld an earlier court decision
Read moreBy Olga Glace On August 32, Belarusian border guards denied Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, head of the Catholic Church in Belarus,
Read moreBy Felix Corley and Mushfig Bayram Uzbekistan’s draft new Religion Law – which officials have promised for several years –
Read moreBy Mushfig Bayram Impunity for multiple instances of torture of Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Protestants continues. Conscientious objector and prisoner
Read moreBy Victoria Arnold Eleven people are serving prison terms and eight suspended sentences under the Extremism Law for exercising their
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