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29 January 2021 Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 After serving sentences as "extremists" for meeting to study and worship, three former prisoners of conscience face expulsion. One was deported, one may be expelled later in 2021, and one remains in detention as he is now stateless and no country has agreed to take him. "I think that the authorities – that is, de facto, the security services – perceive this measure not as an additional punishment, but as a way to get rid of the problem," says Aleksa...

22 January 2021 Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 After repeatedly defending Muslims freedom of religion and belief, including demonstrating outside President Shavkat Mirziyoyevs residence, Tulkun Astanov has been jailed for five years. A state report accused him of following "sources of biased news such as Radio Free Europe", and publishing "unsubstantiated and exaggerated" information. Prisoner of conscience Astanov is being banned in jail from reading the Koran and praying the namaz. After repeatedly...

share At the end of last year, Russia adopted a number of new legal measures that many observers say are intended to further restrict the countrys already state-dominated media sphere. Among other things, the government has begun placing individuals on its list of "foreign-agent" media, subjecting them to potential fines or prison sentences. The government has also criminalized online defamation. Russias state media monitor, Roskomnadzor, this week drew up its first eight administrative prot...

22 December 2020 Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18, and John Kinahan, Forum 18 Tajikistan restricts freedom of religion and belief, along with interlinked freedoms of expression, association and assembly. Forum 18s survey analyses violations including: ban on and punishments for all exercise of freedom of religion or belief without state permission; severe limitations on numbers of mosques; jailing of Muslim, Jehovahs Witness and Protestant prisoners of conscience on alleged "extremism" charges; impunit...

Dalam perkara ini, JPU menuntut hukuman dua tahun penjara kepada Djoko. Dalam pleidoinya, eks buronan kasus cassie Bank Bali itu menyatakan bukan pelaku tindak pidana dalam kegiatan pembuatan surat jalan palsu.