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As the crisis developed and spread to even the outlying centers of both Turkistan and the Caucasus it resulted gradually in the imposition of restrictions limiting the freedom of these communities, in the interrogation and arrest of their elected representatives, in the dissolution of their local Assemblies and their respective committees in Moscow, in Ishqabad, in Baku and in other localities in the above- mentioned provinces and in the suspension of all Baha'i youth activities. It even led to the closing of Baha'i schools, kindergartens, libraries and public reading- rooms, to the interception of all communication with foreign Baha'i centers, to the confiscation of Baha'i printing presses, books and documents, to the prohibition of all teaching activities, to the abrogation of the Baha'i constitution, to the abolition of all national and local funds and to the ban placed on the attendance of non- believers at Baha'i meetings.
(361:1)
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