F18News: TAJIKISTAN: Detention extended, no Bible reading allowed

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Tuesday 4 June 2019

 

TAJIKISTAN: Detention extended, no Bible reading allowed

 

http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2484

By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18

 

A Khujand court has extended Jehovah's Witness pensioner Shamil Khakimov's

pre-trial detention for another month. His "crime", for which he was arrested in February, seems to be that he is thought to lead Khujand's Jehovah's Witness community. Against international human rights standards, he is not allowed to read his Bible.

 

A court in the northern city of Khujand has again extended the pre-trial detention of 68-year-old Jehovah's Witness prisoner of conscience Shamil Khakimov until 27 June. He was arrested in February and is being investigated on criminal charges of allegedly "inciting religious hatred",

which carry a jail term of between five and ten years. But his real "crime" seems to be that the regime thinks he leads Khujand's Jehovah's Witness community.

 

Khakimov, a widower, suffers from high blood pressure and underwent major

leg surgery not long before his February arrest.

 

The court can legally continue extending Khakimov's pre-trial detention for up to one year – to 26 February 2020 – and an April extension of the detention took place illegally without his lawyer being informed ....

 

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[Cushi]

This is saddening. This is why we must read the Bible everyday and fill our mind with spiritual things now because we don’t know when our bibles will be taken away.

[Tbs77]

This is saddening. This is why we must read the Bible everyday and fill our mind with spiritual things now because we don’t know when our bibles will be taken away.

AMEN!!

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