Andrey Muravyov
Inter Press Service English News Wire
10-05-1996
RIGA, Oct. 4 (IPS) -- When 17-year-old Yelena Godlevskaya died
after her parents refused doctors permission to give her a blood
transfusion on religious grounds, a huge debate began across Latvia
that questioned the limits of religious freedom in the country.
The knee-jerk public reaction case looks likely to herald new
restrictions on personal liberty with the country's justice
ministry expected call for an investigation into the "legality" of
Jehovah's Witnesses in Latvia.
President Guntis Ulmanis has sent the Saeima (parliament) a
hastily drafted law on changes to the criminal code on religious
freedom, and its rights to ...

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