The SOC lawyer asks the Constitutional Court to evaluate the norm of “anti-missionary” amendments regarding the indication by a religious organization of its full name

Lawyer of the Slavic Legal Center Sergey Chugunov filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court against the provisions of the Yarovaya-Ozerov amendments the requirement to indicate the full name of the religious organization. According to the applicant, this provision is vague and contradicts two articles of the Constitution.

On July 6, 2020, it became known that the lawyer Slavic Legal Center Sergei Chugunov appealed to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation with a complaint challenging one of the "anti-missionary" amendments from the package Yarovoy - Ozerova.

We are talking about paragraph 8 of Art. 8 of the Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious associations” (“Name religious organization must contain information about its religion. A religious organization is required to indicate its full name when activities") and Part 3 Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Implementation religious organization of activities without indicating its official full name, including production or distribution in the framework of missionary activities of literature, printed, audio and video materials without marking with the specified name or with incomplete or deliberately false labeling”).

According to the applicant, “the norm not formulated clearly and clearly enough, namely, the norm does not specify, in in which specific place a religious organization is obliged to place information with indicating its full name" . Unclear wording “allows law enforcers to arbitrarily interpret it and arbitrarily present requirements for the placement of the names of religious organizations in the implementation their activities" .

Lawyer asks constitutional the court to answer the question whether this rule complies with Art. 28 and part 1 of Art. thirty Constitution of the Russian Federation, which guarantees freedom of religion and freedom of association.

constitutional Court accepted the complaint for consideration on 23 June.

Sources

• We continue to gradually disassemble the "Yarovaya package" ... // Facebook S. Chugunov. 2020. July 6th.