Lukashenka ignored religious feelings of people
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14:02, — Religion
Alyaksandr Lukashenka refused to make a proposal to the Constitutional Court on the reviewing of the Law on Conscience and Religious Organisations.
Bishop Vyachaslau Hancharenka and lawyer Syarhei Lukanin received two letters from the Presidential Administration signed up by S. Buko, head of the department of citizens’ appeals.
Texts of the letters are absolutely identical, they answer the request of more than 50 thousand Belarusians to the Belarusian ruler to make a proposal to the Constitutional Court of the country to give an opinion on whether the Law Conscience and Religious Organisations agrees with the Constitution and international legal acts, ratified by our country.
As the letter notes, there are “no grounds” to take these actions, as “the law covers all necessary conditions for realisation of the constitutional right of citizen on meeting the religious needs, for constructive activity of religious organisations in the frames of legal environment.”
The letter also notes that religious organisations, “which respect and obey the laws,” do not have any problems in the sphere of realisation of their activity. In this connection “we find groundless the statement on mass violating of right to freedom of conscience.”
“More than 100,000 citizens of Belarus were interviewed during the collecting of votes, more than 50,000 people signed up the appeal, asking to changes laws due to systematic violation of rights of believers. We have learnt from the received letters that the problem, topical for many citizens of Belarus, doesn’t exist for the authorities,” Syarhei Lukanin comments on the answer from the Presidential Administration.
It should be noted that it was the sixth refusal of highest bodies of state authority to satisfy the collective appeal of the citizens asking to amend the religious law of Belarus.
