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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-papers-approved/story-fn59niix-1226354317614
AN Uzbek asylum-seeker who claims he endured two days' torture by police for being a Scientologist has won protection in Australia by arguing the documents he used to reach Australian shores were actually falsified.
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The man, a middle-class factory director in Uzbekistan, said he converted to Scientology from Islam in 2006.
He said that by mid-2010 he had networked with a handful of other secret Scientologists and was translating the faith's religious texts from Russian for distribution to people in his town.
He was then summoned to his local police headquarters, where he was tortured over his alleged role in spying against the regime of dictator Islam Karimov, with interrogators breaking his nose and "squishing" his fingers until he gave up the names of his fellow Scientologists.
AN Uzbek asylum-seeker who claims he endured two days' torture by police for being a Scientologist has won protection in Australia by arguing the documents he used to reach Australian shores were actually falsified.
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The man, a middle-class factory director in Uzbekistan, said he converted to Scientology from Islam in 2006.
He said that by mid-2010 he had networked with a handful of other secret Scientologists and was translating the faith's religious texts from Russian for distribution to people in his town.
He was then summoned to his local police headquarters, where he was tortured over his alleged role in spying against the regime of dictator Islam Karimov, with interrogators breaking his nose and "squishing" his fingers until he gave up the names of his fellow Scientologists.