Azerbaijan treats distribution of religious literature as a crime

BAKU, Azerbaijan—On March 3, 2010, Famil Nasirov and Amina Mammadova, Jehovah’s Witnesses sharing comforting thoughts from the Holy Scriptures with their neighbors, were stopped by three police officers and taken to the police station. The police confiscated their personal copies of the Holy Scriptures and other religious books, as well as several magazines they intended to share with persons interested in learning more about the Bible.