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Unregistered Baptists caught in violation of Yarovaya Package

TWO CHRISTIAN-BAPTISTS FROM KAMCHATKA FINED FOR STREET PREACHING

OVDInfo, 23 January 2018

 

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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