Source: http://forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2494&printer=Y
Timestamp: 2019-08-21 10:33:01
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The 106 administrative cases in the first six months of 2019 represent an increase in the rate of prosecutions. In the whole of 2018, 171 such prosecutions are known to have been brought. (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2448)
Many of the prosecutions were to punish meetings for worship without state permission. Bolat Isabayev was fined for leading a home worship meeting in Kandyagash on the most sacred day annually for Jehovah's Witnesses. A court fined two ethnic Azeri imams in Zhambyl Region for maintaining funeral prayer rooms without state approval. Police fined or tried to fine up to 20 members of Karaganda's Revival Protestant Church after raiding a birthday party. (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492)
In three cases, courts ordered seized religious literature to be destroyed: 29 Muslim books seized from a commercial seller in Kyzylorda (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2488); 18 Islamic books seized from another commercial seller also in Kyzylorda; and 2 Islamic books a visitor from Kyrgyzstan had in her luggage. (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2442)
Administrative prosecutions are known to have been brought in January to June 2019 (with comparisons to the full 2018 (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2448) and 2017 (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2348) calendar years) to punish:
1) 5 January 2019, Bakyt Sattarova, Protestant, Karaganda Police, Article 489, Part 10, meeting in home (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 50 MFI fine (reduced to 35 MFI fine on second appeal)
2) 5 January 2019, Aleksandr Shartner, Protestant, Karaganda Police, Article 489, Part 10, meeting in home (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 50 MFI fine
3) 5 January 2019, Sergei Bogovenko, Protestant, Karaganda Police, Article 489, Part 10, meeting in home (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 50 MFI fine
4) 5 January 2019, Aleksei Bykov, Protestant, Karaganda Police, Article 489, Part 10, meeting in home (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 50 MFI fine
5) 5 January 2019, Olga Shartner, Protestant, Karaganda Police, Article 489, Part 10, meeting in home (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 50 MFI fine (overturned on appeal)
6) 5 January 2019, Nadezhda Bogovenko, Protestant, Karaganda Police, Article 489, Part 10, meeting in home (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 50 MFI fine (overturned on appeal)
7) 5 January 2019, Larisa Chachanidze, Protestant, Karaganda Police, Article 489, Part 10, meeting in home (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 50 MFI fine (overturned on appeal)
11) 15 February 2019, Yakov Fot, Council of Churches Baptist, Taraz police, Article 489, Part 9, leading unregistered meeting for worship (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2458), 100 MFI fine
12) 15 February 2019, Viktor Fot, Council of Churches Baptist, Taraz police, Article 489, Part 10, participating in unregistered meeting for worship (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2458), 50 MFI fine (changed on appeal to verbal warning)
14) 28 February 2019, Eduard Neifeld, Council of Churches Baptist, Almaty Specialised Inter-District Administrative Court, Article 490, Part 3 (Article 490, Part 1, Point 1 excluded), participating in unregistered meeting for worship (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2458), 100 MFI fine
15) 3 March 2019, Vitaly Ryzhkov, Council of Churches Baptist, Taraz police, Article 489, Part 10, participating in unregistered meeting for worship (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2458), 50 MFI fine
16) 3 March 2019, Yuliya Ivanova, Council of Churches Baptist, Taraz police, Article 489, Part 10, participating in unregistered meeting for worship (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2464), 50 MFI fine
17) 3 March 2019, Petr Skornyakov, Council of Churches Baptist, Taraz police, Article 489, Part 9, leading unregistered meeting for worship (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2464), 100 MFI fine
22) 24 April 2019, Svetlana Demina, Protestant, Karaganda Specialised Administrative Court, Article 490, Part 3, praying before husband's birthday meal at home (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), case closed because time limit for launching case had expired (fined in November 2018 for same event, but fine annulled on appeal)
24) 14 May 2019, Sarvaz Dzhamalov, Muslim, Merke District Court, Article 490, Part 3, operating an unregistered funeral prayer room (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 70 MFI fine
25) 16 May 2019, Fakhradin Ismailov, Muslim, Merke District Court, Article 490, Part 1, Point 1, operating an unregistered funeral prayer room (registration application rejected) (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 50 MFI fine
27) 6 June 2019, Bolat Isabayev, Jehovah's Witness, Mugalzhar District Court, Article 490, Part 1, Point 1, participating in unregistered meeting for worship on Memorial of Christ's Death (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2492), 35 MFI fine
14) 8 May 2019, Aruzhan Omirbai, commercial seller, Kyzylorda Specialised Administrative Court, Article 490, Part 1, Point 3, offering religious books for sale in shop, 35 MFI fine plus 3-month ban plus destruction of 29 Muslim books (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2488)
12) 15 May 2019, Yerken Akanov, Muslim, Petropavl Specialised Administrative Court, Article 490, Part 8 (second "offence" within one year (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2448)), sharing religious materials on WhatsApp, 200 MFI fine and ban on distributing religious literature
1) 3 January 2019, Gulsanam Katkeldiyeva, Muslim (Kyrgyz citizen), Zhambyl District Court, Article 490, Part 1, Point 3, having 2 Islamic books in luggage entering Kazakhstan from Kyrgyzstan, 50 MFI fine plus book destruction (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2442)
1) 12 February 2019, Nariman Bagirov, Muslim, Almaty Specialised Inter-District Administrative Court, Article 490, Part 2, Amen in mosque (http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2464), 50 MFI fine