TWO
CHRISTIAN-BAPTISTS
FROM KAMCHATKA FINED FOR STREET PREACHING
A
judge of the
Tigil district court in the village of Palana, Yulia Belova,
fined two
adherents of the teaching of the religious organization of the
"International Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists,"
Vladimir
Dordzhiev and Anatoly Tynetegin, 20 and 10 thousand rubles
respectively for
street preaching. This was reported on the website of the court.
The
men were
found guilty of violating part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of
Administrative
Violations of Law (organizing an unsanctioned public event).
Judge Belova
reduced Tynetegin's fine because of mitigating circumstances—he
has nine minor
children.
On
19 November
2017, Dordzhiev and Tynetegin conducted a public worship service
near a
building of a state enterprise, during which they described for
passers-by
their teaching and distributed leaflets. Later police officers
approached the
men and arrested them and took them to the Koryak police
department.
On 22 October 2014, changes were introduced into article 16 of the law "On freedom of conscience and religious associations, after which it became obligatory to get permission for religious events if they were not being conducted on the territory of religious organizations or outside of houses of worship. (tr. by PDS, posted 23 January 2018)
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