UZBEKISTAN: Jailed, fined for uncensored religious materials

A Tashkent court jailed Muslim blogger Alisher Tursunov (Mubashir Ahmad) for two-and-a-half years for his online publications and ordered his sites closed. Tursunov did not appeal and is in labour camp in Navoi Region. A Samarkand court handed Anvar Aliyev a four-year suspended sentence for a Shia Muslim Telegram group. A Tashkent court fined Gayrat Ziyakhojayev for an officially-approved Imam's sermon. "It doesn't matter whether the religious materials are legal or illegal, you have to get the