Tag: Urgench

Uzbekistan: Five Baptists fined on non-specific charges

June 22, 2018 Uzbekistan Baptists, Karshi, Religion Law, Tashkent, Urgench, Uzbekistan

As the government does not allow religious meetings without state permission, Christians in Uzbekistan meet in secret. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Five members of a Baptist church in the southern Uzbek city of Karshi were detained and fined for meeting without state permission, without hearing the exact charges, reports Forum 18. Police also raided the homes of two Baptists, Khamid and Ziyatullo Rakhmonov (not related), on 23 May, and took them . . . Read More

UN rapporteur welcomes Uzbekistan’s religious freedom pledge

June 12, 2018 Uzbekistan Ahmed Shaheed, Human rights, Religious freedom, Urgench, Uzbekistan

Russian Orthodox St. Alexey Cathedral in Samarkand, southeast Uzbekistan. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion of Belief has welcomed Uzbekistan’s pledge to implement the recommendations he made in the wake of a visit there in October last year. Uzbekistan has promised to implement 12 recommendations made by Ahmed Shaheed, and has given a timeline for each one, as well . . . Read More

Uzbek police accused of targeting Christian women with sexual violence

June 1, 2018 Uzbekistan Khorezm, Police, Protestants, Religious freedom, Urgench, Uzbekistan, Women

Christian women in Uzbekistan meet for a meal and to pray together. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Women belonging to a Protestant church in the western Uzbek city of Urgench face threats, harassments and sexual violence from local authorities, according to regional news agency Forum 18. The news agency highlighted the case of Nargiza Khusainova, who was reportedly walking in the streets in January when she was . . . Read More

Uzbek pastor might face criminal charges after police repeat raids on his home

May 29, 2018 Uzbekistan Baptists, Fergana Valley, Human rights, Jehovah's Witnesses, Karshi, Kashkadarya, Khorezm, Religious freedom, Samarkand, Tashkent, Urgench, Uzbekistan

Members of Pastor Kim's church were, like these Christians elsewhere in Uzbekistan, having a meal together to celebrate Easter when the first police raid took place. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

An Uzbek Baptist pastor, who is already serving at home a two-year sentence for having religious books, might now be facing criminal charges. Police raided Pastor Stanislav Kim’s flat in Urgench, north-western Khorezm Region, twice last month, on Easter Sunday (8 April) and a week later (15 April), while the . . . Read More

Uzbekistan clamps down on Baptists over Bible ownership

December 13, 2017 Uzbekistan Andijan, Baptists, Urgench, Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan continues to exert control over ownership of Bibles and other religious literature, according to regional news agency Forum 18. In November, police raided the flat of Irina Stepanova in the eastern city of Andijon, claiming to search for a gun. Finding none, they confiscated Bibles, a songbook, Christian magazines, . . . Read More

Uzbek woman fined over Bible

May 23, 2013 Uzbekistan Bibles, Protestants, Urgench, Uzbekistan

An Uzbek woman has been fined and sentenced to one and a half years of corrective labour for the “illegal production, storage, import or distribution of religious literature”. Sharofat Allamova, a Protestant from Urgench in north-western Uzbekistan, has also been banned from leaving the country, is to be placed in . . . Read More

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