URGENCH, Uzbekistan — Sharofat Allamova, a Protestant from Urgench in northwestern Uzbekistan, has been given one and a half years of corrective labor after being convicted of criminal charges for the “illegal production, storage, import or distribution of religious literature.”
The case’s judge, Makhmud Makhmudov, refused to talk to Forum 18 News Service.
Allamova will be placed in a low-paid state job and forced to pay 20 percent of her salary to the state during her sentence. Banned from leaving the country, she will only be permitted to travel within Uzbekistan and only with written permission.
It has been stated that the National Secret Service police compelled witnesses to make false statements against Allamova.
In other areas of Uzbekistan, fines have been imposed on people in the capital of Tashkent for meeting in a private home and having Christian literature and for carrying a personal Bible and New Testament.
Under Uzbek law, carrying a Bible is illegal.
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