Illegal religious gathering prevented in Azerbaijan’s Zagatala

In a joint operation on Saturday, police and the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations detained 23 people—among them Kazakh citizen Tarana Shabanova and Georgian citizen Aghasi Suleymanov—for gathering at a house in Aliabad village of Azerbaijan’s Zagatala district to preach a banned religious sect.

The detainees were release after the interrogation.

Sixteen books seized from them were sent to the State Committee to be reviewed.   

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