Prisoner of conscience and devout Muslim, 52-year-old Alijon Mirganiyev has been transferred to a strict regime prison to serve a 6 and a half year...
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UZBEKISTAN: Planned new punishments for parents allowing children’s religious education
The regime's non-freely-elected parliament has adopted in the first reading a draft law to allegedly "further strengthen the rights of children"....
UZBEKISTAN: “Go on dreaming!” prison governor replies to tortured prisoner of conscience’s medical need
Prisoner of conscience Fazilkhoja Arifkhojayev is being forced to do work he cannot medically do, damaging his spine even more. He has been...
UZBEKISTAN: Easter church raid, Baptists tortured, prison Ramadan fast ban
Police raided the Baptist Church in Karshi during worship on Easter Sunday, 9 April. They "damaged the door of the prayer house, behaved crudely,...
UZBEKISTAN: “Go on dreaming!” prison governor replies to tortured prisoner of conscience’s medical need
Prisoner of conscience Fazilkhoja Arifkhojayev is being forced to do work he cannot medically do, damaging his spine even more. He has been...
UZBEKISTAN: Muslim prayer rooms closed, Bukhara Baptists unable to meet
The regime has blocked Bukhara's registered Baptist Union Church from meeting since May 2021, but it hopes to be given a new building in 2024. "When...
UZBEKISTAN: 15-day jail for haram yoghurt videos
Hojiakbar Nosirov, a 25-year-old consumer rights activist from Tashkent, posted a video on social media on 5 April declaring that the red colouring...
UZBEKISTAN: Regime continues repeated arbitrary blocking of registration
Regime officials have repeatedly used a variety of tactics to block state registration applications from Muslim and non-Muslim religious...
UZBEKISTAN: Former prisoner of conscience rearrested, another given 10 more years jail
In the first half of June, the regime arrested former prisoner of conscience Khayrullo Tursunov and about 100 other Muslim men in Kashkadarya...