UZBEKISTAN: Police conduct sexual harassment, threaten fines or jail for sharing faith

Police and Struggle against Terrorism and Extremism police summon Jehovah's Witnesses who share their faith with others in public. Officers warn of fines of two months' average wages – and in one case of up to five years' imprisonment. In May, police interrogated and verbally abused a woman and her minor daughter, and instructed them to undress. The women refused. Officers forced them to sign that they "illegally shared their faith". "I don't think that could have happened," Mirjamol Miralimov