Days after deporting True and Free Adventist leader Pavel Shreider, Prosecutors began another criminal case against Church members. House searches, literature seizures, interrogations and "interception of telephone conversations" followed. Five were jailed pre-trial in June. At trials in Bishkek in August and September, Judges changed the criminal charges from "distribution of extremist materials" to participation in an "extremist organisation". The court fined all five up to two weeks' average wage. "I would keep them in prison if it depended on me," Investigator Adilet Asanbayev told Forum 18.
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