TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan has fined 13 members of an unregistered Baptist church 100 times the minimum monthly salary. The church has protested against the fines, claiming that more than 60 violations of Uzbek law were committed in the course of the arrests, detentions and interrogations which led up to the court proceedings. Among the criminal code articles said to…
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