Uzbekistan: Fines, Magazine Destruction, Short-Term Jailing, Beard Shaving, Threats

By Mushfig Bayram

A Tashkent court fined a Baptist for offering Christian magazines to neighbours in her home and ordered the magazines destroyed. A Muslim was jailed for 10 days after police found a lecture from a state Islamic institution on his phone. And a police officer threatened another Muslim with jail or a psychiatric...