Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service

Uzbekistan authorities continue to deny church legal status

A Protestant church in the Uzbek capital Tashkent has been denied legal status four times since October 2007.

Accusations of illegal worship and expulsions in Kyrgyzstan

Two foreign Protestants - Edward Sands from New Zealand and Alastair Morrice from Scotland - have been expelled from Kyrgyzstan in the past month at the insistence of the National Security Service (NSS) secret police.