In Uzbekistan, having more than one Bible can make you a missionary,
and being a missionary in Uzbekistan can get you five years in jail.
Uzbeks no longer have freedom of religion, or even speech; not only
is just one Bible per household mandated by law, it must also be written
in Russian, a language only 20 percent of Uzbeks understand.
Located in Central Asia, Uzbekistan was formerly the Uzbek Soviet
Socialist Republic. In 1992, Uzbekistan became a secular state after
passing its first post-Soviet constitution, but that state still kept
many of the centralized controls characteristic of its former Soviet
Republic.
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