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Saturday, October 04, 2003 |
TIBETAN POLITICAL PRISONER DIES SUDDENLY - RFA
A young Tibetan political prisoner known for boldly signing his own name to posters calling for Tibetan independence has died in hospital in an historically Tibetan area of Sichuan Province, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports. Nyima Drakpa, a monk in his late 20s, died at 4 a.m. local time Oct. 2 in Dawu (in Chinese, Daofu) County, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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UZBEKISTAN: NO PEACE FOR PEACE CHURCH - Form 19
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For the fourth time since the Peace Protestant church in Nukus in Karakalpakstan had its registration stripped from it in August 2000, the church was raided by the police during Sunday worship on 24 August and two if its leaders subsequently fined five times the minimum monthly wage. "This is not the first time that I have fined the Peace church's leaders," judge Oibek Tureyev told Forum 18 News Service. "I can only repeat to you once again that under Uzbek laws registration is compulsory." One of the two leaders fined, Khym-Mun Kim, told Forum 18 the church has repeatedly tried to regain its registration. "We are law-abiding citizens and we want to be registered but the authorities are forcing us to operate illegally." |
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UZBEKISTAN: FINES TO FOLLOW PROTESTANT CHURCH CLOSURE - Forum 18
The deputy head of the Upper Chirchik district administration, Shukhrat Tursunbayev, has insisted he did nothing wrong in closing down an unregistered Protestant church in the village of Ahmad Yassavy on the outskirts of Tashkent. "We were acting within the law," he told Forum 18 News Service. "According to the Uzbek law on religion the activity of an unregistered religious community is forbidden." Police officers and local officials burst into the Sunday service of the Friendship Church on 7 September, took down the names of all those present, sealed the church and warned the Protestants they will be prosecuted under the Code of Administrative Offences.
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