Courts in 7 Regions are known to have banned the activity of 12 Council of Churches Baptist communities because they meet for worship without state registration or notification of their existence to the Justice Ministry. Prosecutors argue â as in an August court decision in Saransk â that failure to notify constitutes "a threat to public interests, public order, and national security". In a Rostov case, a prosecutor argued in court that the Baptists' "prolonged failure to legalise the activity and refusal to acknowledge the notification requirement hinder state oversight".
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