URGENCH, Uzbekistan — Police officers from Uzbekistan’s criminal investigation department burst into the home of a Protestant pastor in northwest Uzbekistan April 24, disrupting 12 people as they were having lunch together. The pastor and another believer were charged with “breaking the laws on teaching religion.” The raid in Urgench, a city in the Khorezm region near the Turkmen border, targeted…
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