COURT
FINES ORTHODOX
PARISH IN BASHKIRIA FOR OUTBREAK OF COVID-19
Interfax-Religiia,
21
August 2020
The
Orthodox parish
of the village of Ishparsovo in Bashkiria was fined 200,000
rubles for an outbreak
of coronavirus. A city court of Sterlitamak issued an order
concerning this.
"The
religious
organization of the Orthodox parish of St. Michael the Archangel
church of the
village of Ishparsovo . . . is found guilty of committing an
administrative violation
of law
based on part 2 of article 6.3 of the Code of Administrative
Violations of Law
of the RF and is assessed a penalty in the form of an
administrative fine of
200,000 rubles," the court's decision states.
It was
established
that church services were conducted in the church, despite the
prohibition on
conducting mass rituals and ceremonies. In particular, a worship
service was
held on 9 May, after which parishioners came down with the
coronavirus and were
hospitalized.
The
court came to the
conclusion that the religious organization violated the federal
law on sanitary
and epidemiological welfare, which created a threat to the life
and health of
people. The legal entity was assessed the minimum penalty
provided for by the
administrative code because of the absence of aggravating
circumstances.
In early
June, the
republican department of Rospotrebnadzor reported cases of
community-spread
pneumonia in six persons from the parish of the aforementioned
church. As of
the present, two cases of coronavirus infection have been
confirmed in
parishioners. (tr. by PDS, posted 21 August 2020)
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