Kazakhstan: Court-ordered religious book burning a first?Forum18: In what may be the first such instance in Kazakhstan, a court has ordered religious literature to be destroyed. A total of 121 books confiscated from a Baptist, Vyacheslav Cherkasov, were ordered destroyed in the northern Akmola Region, according to the verdict seen by Forum 18 News Service. The books comprise Bibles, Children’s Bibles, and other books and leaflets on the Christian faith, mainly in the Kazakh language.
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