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1 Christians harassed 17 May 2012
2 Illegal prosecutions and punishments 08 December 2011
3 Police harass pastor 04 August 2011
4 Christian threatened by police 30 June 2011
5 Update: Pray for imprisoned Uzbek pastor 19 May 2011
6 Christian assaulted, fined for distributing Bible 21 April 2011
7 Christians facing prosecution after police raid 17 February 2011
8 Prisoner of conscience 'released but not free' 10 February 2011
9 Pastor Dmitry Shestakov released from prison! 27 January 2011
10 Christian books confiscated 02 December 2010
11 Christian fined for having a film of Jesus' life 28 October 2010
12 Update: Pray for imprisoned Christian 02 September 2010
13 Christians jailed and fined 12 August 2010
14 Authorities crack down on Christians 22 July 2010
15 Christians arrested and fined 20 May 2010
16 Update: Christian sentenced to prison; believers heavily fined 18 March 2010
17 Unregistered Christians targeted 11 February 2010
18 Police raid church service, arrest believers in Tashkent 02 September 2009
19 Believers arrested and fined 15 April 2009
20 Christians under fire 25 March 2009
 
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Uzbekistan Profile

Location
Asia

Population
28,128,600 (July 2011 est.)

Ethnicity (%)
Uzbek (80), Russian (5.5), Tajik (5), Kazakh (3), Karakalpak (2.5), Tatar (1.5), other (2.5)

Religion (%)
Muslim (84.93), Non-religious (13.80), Christian (0.75), Other (0.52)

Leader
President Islom Karimov

Government type
Republic; authoritarian presidential rule

Legal system
Based on civil law system

Statistics provided by CIA World Factbook and Operation World.

Vidoes:

Father, pastor, former prisoner

Ex-Soviet Countries Face Persecution

Church leaders sentenced


Persecution News - Uzbekistan

Christians harassed
(May 17, 2012)

Illegal prosecutions and punishments
(December 08, 2011)

Police harass pastor
(August 04, 2011)

Christian threatened by police
(June 30, 2011)

Update: Pray for imprisoned Uzbek pastor
(May 19, 2011)

Christian assaulted, fined for distributing Bible
(April 21, 2011)

Christians facing prosecution after police raid
(February 17, 2011)

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