Doniyor Akhmedov - a Baptist - was one of three Protestants in Uzbekistan known to have been imprisoned for between seven and fifteen days in March and April. He was held after offering a religious leaflet to a passer-by on the street. For the last part of his imprisonment, Akhmedov was held in a small cell with more than ten people and barely space to sleep on the floor. After he was freed he was fined more than three years' official minimum wage. The Deputy Chief of Police, refused to discuss Akhmedov's case. Protestants and Jehovah's Witnesses are frequently fined and occasionally given short-term prison sentences, but Muslims who exercise their right to freedom of religion or belief often face much harsher penalties, including long prison terms.