Court verdict ordered the destruction of Bibles
Six Baptists who led Sunday worship in an old people's home near Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent face criminal and administrative charges after an "anti-terror operation" against their service, Baptists...
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Physically assaulted by police
Galina Shemetova, a female member of an officially registered Baptist Church, gave a children's Bible in the summer 2010 to one of her work colleagues at the Tashkent Metro. She was subsequently...
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Uzbekistan's Imprisoned Human Rights Defenders
Human Rights Watch calls on the Uzbek government to immediately and unconditionally release all wrongfully imprisoned activists, several of whom suffer from serious illness and at least seven of whom...
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Fashion Week Cancels Show of Uzbek Dictator’s Daughter
Enslaving children and torturing dissidents is never chic. The daughter of Uzbekistan’s dictator planned to unveil her spring fashion line at New York City’s prestigious Fashion Week. But her show was...
View ArticlePhysical violence against Christians
Three members of the same Protestant church in Jarkurgan, a town north of Termez in Uzbekistan's southern Surkhandarya Region, are facing administrative charges to punish them for their religious...
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Christian books ordered to be destroyed
On 15 January Odiljon Solijanov, a member of an unregistered Council of Churches Baptist church from Pap District in Namangan Region in the east was stopped by Pap District Police officers. Solijanov...
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It is prohibited to keep such books at home
In what some in Uzbekistan think may be a change in the authorities' repression policy, there has been an apparent increase in confiscations of privately-owned religious books from homes during raids....
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Raid, beating, literature destruction
Police raided the Tashkent home of a Russian Orthodox mother Valentina Pleshakova and her disabled daughter Natalya, seizing their religious literature and beating Natalya, Forum 18 News Service...
View Article"Leave only one spoon, one mug and one mattress for each"
Uzbekistan continues to raid private homes, confiscating religious literature and halting meetings for worship, Forum 18 News Service notes. Fines of up to 50 times the minimum wage have then been...
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Open letter to Indiana University
As we know, Ilhom Tuychievich Nematov, the Republic of Uzbekistan's ambassador to the United States, will visit Indiana University Bloomington on Monday, Nov. 26, and review its extensive educational...
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