ASTANA, Kazakhstan — The human rights record of Kazakhstan faced reviews by the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Oct. 30 in Geneva, Switzerland. Nurlan Bizhanov, a deputy prosecutor of East Kazakhstan Region, warned local officials in mid-September about the “activity of nontraditional religious movements which is not declining,” citing Grace Church, a Baptist church in the country, as “non-traditional.”…
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