Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Legal repression of Protestants and Muslims continues in Uzbekistan / ekklesia, 18 September 2007
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5719
Felix Corley
"Several different state agencies in the capital Tashkent are engaged in simultaneous moves to close down a Presbyterian congregation and confiscate its church building. Meanwhile a group of Protestants in the south of the country were detained in mid-September and had religious literature confiscated. Twelve face charges under the Administrative Code.
The crackdown comes as the authorities are reported to have stepped up restrictions over Muslim prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which officially began in Uzbekistan on 13 September."