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http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1405 KAZAKHSTAN - WOMEN'S PRAYER SERVICE LEADS TO MASSIVE FINE By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service |
Kazakhstan has fined Zhanna-Tereza Raudovich 100 times the minimum monthly wage for hosting a Sunday morning worship service in her home, attended by local Baptist women and their children, Forum 18 News Service has learned. Police who raided Raudovich's home drew up an official record that "they had discovered an illegally functioning religious community", local Baptists complained to Forum 18. An appeal was due to be heard on 11 February. It remains unclear how Raudovich could pay the fine, as she has six children and does not have paid work. She has been warned that she will face criminal charges if she does not pay the fine. Meanwhile, Kazakh police have told Forum 18 that Kazakh-born Baptist Dmitry Leven will be deported for "illegal missionary activity" unless an appeal to Kazakhstan's Supreme Court against his conviction is successful. As the Supreme Court has refused to even consider an appeal, it is unclear what will happen to Leven. "I just want to be able to remain here," Leven told Forum 18. "I don't want to go anywhere else." |
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Unless she succeeds in her appeal on 11 February,
Zhanna-Tereza Raudovich will be due to pay a massive fine for hosting a
Sunday morning service in her home attended by several local Baptist women
and their children, Baptists and court officials told Forum 18 News Service.
Meanwhile, the Migration Police have told Forum 18 that fellow-Baptist Dmitry
Leven will be deported for "illegal missionary activity" unless a
final appeal to Kazakhstan's Supreme Court is successful. Baptists told Forum 18 that on 21 January she received a written warning from the court executor Sermagambetov (first name unknown) that if she does not pay the fine she will face criminal trial. |
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