Posted on 04/13/2021 6:40:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
Courts fined at least 18 people in 2021 for distributing religious literature, texts, videos, audio and items in places and ways the regime declares illegal under its compulsory religious censorship. Most fines were of three weeks' average wages. "People don't have the right to distribute religious materials in any form whatsoever, whether text, video or audio," insists Kayrulla Kushkaliyev of Atyrau's Religious Affairs Department – which brought six prosecutions. The UN Human Rights Committee found an import ban on ten Jehovah's Witness publications violated Polat Bekzhan's rights.
Courts have fined at least 18 people in the first three months of 2021 for distributing religious literature, texts, videos, audio and religious items in places and ways the regime declares to be illegal under its compulsory religious censorship. Only one of the individuals, Council of Churches Baptist Nikolai Novikov – who was offering religious literature for free on the streets – had his fine overturned on appeal.
Most of the fines were of 35 Monthly Financial Indicators (MFIs), about three weeks' average wages for those in formal work, according to the court decisions seen by Forum 18. (A full list of the 18 known cases is below.)
Six of the prosecutions – all of people who had posted religious materials on their social media accounts – were in the western city of Atyrau on the Caspian Sea. Kayrulla Kushkaliyev, the head of the regional Religious Affairs Department – which brought the prosecutions – insisted that he was merely fulfilling the requirements of the Religion Law. "People don't have the right to distribute religious materials in any form whatsoever, whether text, video or audio," he told Forum 18 (see below).
The prosecutions continue as the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee found that the regime's censorship system caused a violation of the rights of.....
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WHat do you get when you cross a JW with an agnostic?
Someone who goes around knocking on doors but doesn’t know why.
So...no more beheading videos?
What is a insomniac dyslexic agnostic? Someone who spends sleepless nights trying to decide if there is a Dog.
They don’t even allow Islamic material?!
How very......Democrat Party of them.
Tosatti: Vatican Unofficially Restricts Bishop Schneider, Cardinal Burke
The auxiliary bishop of Astana, formerly bishop of Karaganda [Kazakhstan], Athanasius Schneider, has received a verbal injunction from the Vatican asking him to reduce the frequency of his foreign trips.
This measure was taken last spring (of 2018); the bishop was informed in April by the Nuncio in Kazakhstan, Francis Assisi Chullikatt, of this extraordinary restriction on his freedom.
According to the 2009 Census, 70% of the population is Muslim, 26% Christian, 0.2% Buddhist, 0.1% other religions (mostly Jewish), and 3% irreligious, while 0.5% chose not to answer.[
Islam is the largest religion practiced in Kazakhstan, with estimates of about 70.2% of the country’s population being Muslim. Ethnic Kazakhs are predominantly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi school. ... Geographically speaking, Kazakhstan is the northernmost Muslim-majority country in the world.
Kazakhstan, formerly a constituent (union) republic of the U.S.S.R. , declared independence on December 16, 1991
Home of Borat.
Has it always been called Kazakhtstan:?
Well I’m sure it was the Kazakh SSR, before that.
Oh those wacky Kazakhis!
Especially not Islamic material. In central Asia they monitor the mosques closely. The sermons have to be approved by the Government if not actually issued by the government. And monitoring cameras in the mosques. And no distributed Wahhabbi ie Salafi literature
Strangely enough Kazakhstan declared independence from the USSR after Russia declared independence from the USSR
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan and Turkmenistan are all Stalinist creations. They were a mix of organic and Turko Mongolic peoples under various thanatos until the fussians came and governed them as turkestan. Then stalin split them up and sovietized them
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