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Kazakhstani recruiter for Tablighi Jamaat sentenced to prison

By Alexander Bogatik

ASTANA -- An Astana court sentenced a recruiter for the banned Tablighi Jamaat organisation to nine months in prison, the Astana city prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday (March 31).

The defendant, identified only as T., conducted meetings from 2013 through 2015 at which he called for a "caliphate" in Kazakhstan and promoted Tablighi Jamaat's ideas, according to prosecutors.

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