Islamist Group In Northern Kazakhstan Broken Up
June 08, 2006
Kazakh Muslims at prayer (RFE/RL)
The police made no arrests, but fined the members of the group and placed under surveillance.
The group, Tabligh Jamaat, or Society for the Propagation of the Faith, was set up in India in the 1920s. It is believed to have many followers in Central Asia.
(Interfax-Kazakhstan)