Three weeks after Jehovah's Witness Irfon Hamidov was imprisoned for two years by Samarkand City Criminal Court for "illegal" religious teaching, the same court has sentenced fellow Jehovah's Witness Dilafruz Arziyeva on the same charges. She has received a two year correctional labour sentence, where 20 per cent of her wages will be docked, Jehovah's Witnesses have told Forum 18 News Service. Authorities in Samarkand have long refused to give the Jehovah's Witnesses legal status. A local official rejected an application in 2002, arguing that enough other religious communities were registered locally for people "to realise their freedom of conscience and to practise their beliefs". Also punished this year on "illegal" religious teaching charges was Pentecostal Christian Salavat Serikbayev. But he has had his two year correctional labour sentence reduced to one year. He has been assigned to cultivate plants in the desert, with 20 per cent of his wages docked.
Jehovah's Witness Dilafruz Arziyeva imprisoned
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I wonder if the Society will announce a letter writing campaign, or just let their loyal brainwashed followers rot in jail for no good reason!
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ninja
I'd hate to be the jailer that asked his name when getting imprisoned
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PrimateDave
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A local official rejected an application in 2002, arguing that enough other religious communities were registered locally for people "to realise their freedom of conscience and to practise their beliefs".
Whatever one may think of the WTS or any other religion, this kind of attitude is dangerous. Why should a government official have the power to decide that there are "enough" religions?
Dave