PROSECUTOR'S
OFFICE
FAILS TO LIQUIDATE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
SOVA
Center
for
News and Analysis, 16 January 2018
A
court in
Naberezhnye Chelny did not want to review a lawsuit from the
prosecutor's
office requesting a ruling that the "Dom Evangeliia" ["House of
the Gospel"] Church of Pentecostals had terminated its activity
because of
the fact that at the time of a visit of the building by
personnel of the
prosecutor's office there was nobody there.
On
15 January
2018, the Naberezhnye Chelny city court left without
consideration a lawsuit of
the city prosecutor's office requesting a ruling that the local
religious
organization of the "Dom Evangeliia" Church of Christians of
Evangelical Faith had terminated its activity and an order to
remove it from
the Uniform State Register of Legal Entities.
The
prosecutor's
office came to the conclusion about terminating the activity of
the religious
organization after on a week day, 23 October 2017, personnel of
the
prosecutor's office came to the church's building and found a
lock on the
doors.
The
court noted
that the suit for terminating the activity of a religious
organization (and not
a group) must be submitted not by a city prosecutor's office but
by the
prosecutor's office of a constituent entity [subject] of the
federation. On
this basis, it was decided to reject the lawsuit of the
Naberezhnye Chelny
prosecutor's office.
The
interests of
the church were represented by advocate Inna Zagrevina.
Earlier
a court
had prohibited the use of a temporary building of the church.
(tr.
by PDS,
posted 17 January 2018)
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officials harass Pentecostals in Tatar region, among
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