PARTICIPANTS IN YOUTH CONFERENCE
ARRESTED IN RUSSIA
On Saturday, 17 September, in Samara
(Russia), police
arrested participants in a youth conference "YuS Volga," which
was
held in the "Word of Life" church from 16 to 18 September, the
Christian megaportal Invictory.com reports.
As Invictory reported, the situation
with the arrests
has been resolved. All detainees were released in the night of
Saturday/Sunday.
The arrest of the conference
participants was earlier
reported by a lawyer of the Slavic Legal Center, Konstantin
Andreev.
"Yesterday disturbing news arrived from
Samara: a
protestant youth conference was held in the city. During the
conference, police
burst in and began to 'interrogate,'" the attorney wrote on his
Facebook
page. "Ministers were arrested and taken to the police
department,
including a young pastor from a fraternal church in Israel.
Minors were stuffed
into the whole vehicle and also taken away. Those who
accompanied them were
told that they will 'surrender the children' only to their
parents."
The attorney said that the chaperones
possessed
permission for the children's attendance at the event in simple
written form,
without notarization. Law enforcement personnel refused to
release the children
without provision of information about birth and notarized
permission by the
parents for the chaperones.
"It should be noted that 'power of
attorney,' on
the basis of which parents permit someone to accompany a child
on a trip is a
document without entirely clear legal status. Formally such a
document is
required only in one case—if a child is crossing the boundaries
of the country.
Within Russia, such a document is not required," Andreev
emphasized.
In his turn, the attorney advised parents to avoid unpleasantness with law enforcement agencies by composing the power of attorney in accordance with all rules, and he described what kind of information should be indicated in the document. (tr. by PDS, posted 20 September 2016)
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