AZERBAIJAN: More than 50 prosecutions in 2026 for unapproved religious meetings🔒 SSL Verified

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"A court in Baku's Binagadi District fined 8 Muslims two months' average wage each for holding "religious meetings and other religious activities in a private house". A court in Absheron District heard cases against 26 people who held an unapproved religious meeting in Mehdiabad. These were among 57 known administrative prosecutions between January and mid-September brought by religious affairs officials, police or prosecutors to punish the exercise of freedom of religion or belief. State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations spokesperson Yagut Aliyeva did not answer questions."

"Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party committed itself in its manifesto to unilaterally removing the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin. After winning the election, it included the commitment in its five-year Programme, which the National Assembly approved on 25 August. The Church condemned the government and National Assembly moves as outside their competence. "We would emphasise that the state neither can nor wishes to appoint a Catholicos," Pashinyan's spokesperson Melanya Harutyunyan insists. "The state's aim is the restoration of the normal functioning of the Church's own bodies.""

"The General Prosecutor's Office is ruling that ever more foreign organisations – including some with religious affiliation – threaten Russia's security. The Justice Ministry then adds them to its "undesirable organisations" register. Those "cooperating" with them risk punishment. Olga Sibiryova of the Sova Centre for Information and Analysis – which monitors religious freedom – faces prosecution after an international organisation cited her reports without her knowledge. Courts fined a Baptist church and two Protestant higher education institutions for having literature from Mission Eurasia. A Moscow Region court ordered Bibles it published to be destroyed."

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