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Former Soviet-era prisoner fined in Kazakhstan
By Bob Allen An 87-year-old former Soviet-era prisoner of conscience and Baptist pastor has been fined for conducting religious activities without state permission in Kazakhstan. Forum 18, an international news service that monitors religious freedom violations, says Yegor Prokopenko, pastor of an unregistered church in Zyryanovsk in eastern Kazakhstan, is the oldest of 35 individuals...
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