They hate you because of me - Igor Rotar, Forum 18 News Service's Central Asia Correspondent, has an article titled, "UZBEKISTAN: Government defies international human rights pressure.
Here is Rotar's summary of the article:
At the same time that Uzbekistan was being visited by a delegation from the official US Commission for International Religious Freedom, the police and NSS security police suddenly raided a worship service in a Baptist church which they have ignored for the past three years, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. The Pastor, Nikolai Shevchenko, was fined and warned that that, if he did not halt the activity of the church, criminal charges would be brought against him. The church's repeated attempts to gain state registration have been frustrated by the authorities, and Pastor Shevchenko suggested to Forum 18 that the raid "can scarcely be a coincidence. Tashkent is using this to try and demonstrate that it is not afraid of pressure from the international community and that it does not intend to observe international standards on the rights of believers."
Say a prayer for our brothers and sisters in Uzbekistan.
The Great Separation continues.
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