Police in Khujand, northern Tajikistan, detained 17 followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are banned in this country, a source at the country’s Interior Ministry told Interfax on Friday. “They were using the houses as a place of worship, which is banned by law,” he said.

Article source: Radio Free Europe
Authorities in the ethnic Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region are refusing to allow Jehovah’s Witnesses and another nontraditional religious group from legally operating in the self-proclaimed republic, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports.
A new law adopted by the Karabakh parliament obligated all religious denominations to reregister with a government department on religious affairs within a six-month period.