ICC NOTE: 8 Christians have been arrested and fined recently in Uzbekistan for having Christian literature in their presence. Christian and other religious literature are illegal in Uzbekistan which carry fines and possible prison time for those caught. One Christian in particular, a Baptist named Stanislav Kim, was sentenced to two years in a corrective labor camp for being caught a second time within a year for Christian books. Uzbekistan is one of the worst nations in the world to live as a Christian and one of many in Central Asia to continue similar practices in which the former Soviet Union conducted towards religious groups regardless of faith.  

9/30/2016 Uzbekistan (Forum 18) – A Baptist from Urgench [Urganch] in the north-western Khorezm Region has been punished for a second time within a year for having Christian books at home, which state officials regard as “illegal”. As this was a second punishment, Stanislav Kim was convicted under the Criminal Code, receiving a two-year corrective labour sentence.