Those who exercise freedom of religion or belief outside the strict limits risk punishment through the courts for what the state regards as "missionary activity"
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By Felix Corley | August 4, 2017
After a Protestant Pastor and five foreign guests held baptisms in hot springs near Almaty, a court fined all six and ordered one foreigner deported, deeming they had conducted illegal "missionary activity". A Baptist pastor succeeded in overturning a police fine for leading his church.
A local Protestant pastor and five foreign visitors were fined for holding baptisms in hot springs near Kazakhst
an's commercial capital Almaty. One of the foreigners – a United States-based Canadian citizen – was ordered deported.
A court in Akmola Region overturned a summary police fine on a Baptist pastor for leading a church that chooses to meet for worship without seeking the compulsory state registration. The Judge ruled that as he had been fined for this in 2013 he could not be fined twice for the same "offence".
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