EKIBASTUZ, Kazakhstan — In Kazakhstan’s first known use of expanded and increased punishments for exercising freedom of religion or belief, a Baptist in eastern Kazakhstan has been fined what local people estimate to be a year-and-a-half’s average local wages for leading an unregistered religious organization.  Shoe repairer and father of 10 Aleksei Asetov was fined $3,273 U.S. dollars for leading…