UZBEKISTAN: No mosque visits for Muslim serving sentence under effective house arrest

Muslim prisoner of conscience Fazilkhoja Arifkhojayev, punished for criticising the regime's religious policies, is now banned from attending mosque. A Tashkent court imposed the new effective house arrest (due to end in October 2029) after Probation Department officials claimed he violated the terms of his conditional prison release. Police blocked Tashkent Muslim Gayrat Ziyakhojayev from his appeal against a fine for posting a Muslim sermon online. Turkish officials are holding former Tashkent imam Fazliddin Parpiyev in an Ankara detention centre. His friends fear torture if extradited to Uzbekistan.