The 192 known administrative prosecutions in 2023 for exercising freedom of religion or belief are listed here. More than one third punished...
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KAZAKHSTAN: Still jailed despite 2021 UN “immediate” release call
In September 2021, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for 9 Muslims jailed for participating in an online religious...
KAZAKHSTAN: Conscientious objector’s 6 months in military detention
In autumn 2022, Jehovah's Witness Daniil Smal presented the Conscription Office a certificate from the Jehovah's Witness Centre that he is a...
KAZAKHSTAN: Regime ignores UN alternative service recommendations
"The law does not directly recognise the right of an individual to refuse to carry out military service on religious or other grounds," Kazakhstan...
KAZAKHSTAN: 203 known administrative prosecutions in 2023
A third of the 203 known administrative prosecutions in 2023 for exercising freedom of religion or belief punished individuals for religious posts...
KAZAKHSTAN: Religious censorship at border
For the first known time since February 2020, courts in 2022 fined five individuals several weeks' average wages for trying to import religious...
KAZAKHSTAN: Prisoners of conscience still in jail, others under multiple long-term punishments
3 Muslim prisoners of conscience remain jailed 2 years after the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for their release "immediately". 5...