by admin_HRWF | Nov 25, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Felix Corley Forum 18 (22.11.2019) – http://bit.ly/2XIAVNy – A court in Mary Region jailed 26-year-old Jehovah’s Witness conscientious objector Serdar Dovletov for three years despite his chronic stomach ulcer that requires medical...
by admin_HRWF | Jul 10, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Kyrgyzstan has registered over 60 communities, most of them Protestant, since December 2018. But some Jehovah’s Witness communities still cannot get state permission to exist, while Ahmadi Muslims remain banned. Amid physical attacks on and burial denials to...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 7, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious communities including Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting for worship continue to be raided, with interrogations lasting between 20 minutes and 14 hours and in some cases involving torture. Other religious communities also face renewed questioning, especially...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 31, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Police searched a woman’s flat in Bukhara to seize a New Testament Shukhrat Safarov had given her. A court fined Safarov and ordered the book destroyed. The government’s Religious Affairs Committee claimed that using the New Testament for “missionary...
by admin_HRWF | Jan 17, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Compared to the first year they were implemented, punishments in Russian-occupied Crimea for ill-defined “missionary activity” doubled in 2018. Of 23 prosecutions for sharing faith or holding worship at unapproved venues, 19 ended in punishment. Also, 17...
