Story number 4 for 28 Sep 2000

Meanwhile, Keston News is reporting that nine Christians in Uzbekistan have been detained, beaten and forced to write statements dictated by the police. In a second raid on their meeting place immediately following the men’s release, police said they had been ordered to expel all visiting Baptists from Tashkent. Recent reports from Open Doors confirm a separate recent raiding of two other churches in the area and the continued refusal to register the Greater Grace congregation.