CHISINAU (Reuters) - A Ukrainian lawmaker, Yevhen Yakovenko, was detained at the Moldovan border at the request of the International Criminal Police O.
In December 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Committee asked Belarus to respond in the case of 33-year-old Jehovah s Witness conscientious objector Dmitry Mozol. In February 2021, a court in Pinsk fined him four months wages for refusing call-up to reservist military training on grounds of conscience. He failed to overturn the criminal punishment on appeal. The law allows only individuals who have completed alternative civilian service to be exempted from reservist military training. Alternative service was introduced only in 2016, after Mozol was initially called up. Jehovah s Witnesses fear that other young men could also face such prosecution.