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By Felix Corley In December 2017, Sufi Muslim Rashad Abidov, whose home in the northern town of Sheki was raided

By Mushfig Bayram On January 2, 2018 the Baptist Church in Kaji-Sai, in Kyrgyzstan’s north-eastern Issyk-Kul [Ysyk-Kol] Region was burnt

By Victoria Arnold Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia continue to feel the impact of their liquidation and the nationwide ban on

By Victoria Arnold Russian prisoner of conscience Yevgeny Kim, who was jailed on 19 June for three years and nine

By Felix Corley One year on from the introduction of penalties in Russia for ill-defined “missionary activity” – which the

By Victoria Arnold Individuals continue to be prosecuted for exercising their freedom of religion and belief in public, but the

By Felix Corley The Kazakhstan state is prosecuting and fining Muslims for saying the word “Amen” aloud in mosques, after

By Mushfig Bayram Out of around 70 people in mobs incited by officials who twice exhumed a deceased Protestant’s body

By Felix Corley In mid-September the final seven of 34 Jehovah’s Witnesses lost their appeals against fines of more than