Kazakhstan: Muslim preacher the latest prisoner of conscience

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A criminal case based on 43 leaflets his family insists were planted during a three-hour police night raid on their home was then opened. Police produced "witnesses" that Tulbayev states he has never met.

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Source/Credit: Forum 18 News Service
By Felix Corley | June 10, 2015

Kazakhstan's trial of a Muslim prisoner of conscience, Saken Tulbayev, is due to resume sometime after 12 June at an Almaty court, Forum 18 News Service has learned.

He has been detained as a prisoner of conscience since 1 April, having been first fined for preaching at a railway station without state permission.

A criminal case based on 43 leaflets his family insists were planted during a three-hour police night raid on their home was then opened. Police produced "witnesses" that Tulbayev states he has never met.

While in detention he is being denied a Koran and family visits and he faces up to seven years’ jail if convicted.

Meanwhile,  a case against a Baptist, Nikolai Novikov, who refused to pay a fine for exercising freedom of religion or belief without state permission seems about to be closed after worldwide protests.

"They told me there were so many appeals it seemed that half the world had written", he told Forum 18.

The second criminal case against retired Pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev appears to have halted, but the case against atheist writer Aleksandr Kharlamov, who was detained in a psychiatric hospital, continues.



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