A new wave of persecution has begun.
Two Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kyzylorda failed to overturn punishments – a seven-day jail term and a fine – for holding a religious meeting in a private home.Two Jehovah’s Witnesses appealed to the Kyzylorda Regional Prosecutor’s Office – Almas Zhakupov on 23 September and Tamara Magomedova on 20 July – after both were separately punished in the wake of a 27 May evening raid on a religious meeting in Magomedova’s Kyzylorda home. Zhakupov was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, while Magomedova was fined and ordered not to hold religious meetings in her home, Jehovah’s Witnesses told Forum 18.
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