Yonhap News Agency reported that the Criminal 11th Division of the Daegu District Court of South Korea issued a judgment on the 3rd in the case of the relevant person in charge of the evidence tabernacle temple of the
New World Jesus Religion suspected of obstructing pandemic prevention, and found eight people, including A, the head of the Daegu Church in Shintiandi.
The court said that the pandemic prevention department’s request for Xintiandi to submit a list of believers does not fall within the scope of epidemiological investigation stipulated in the Infectious Disease Prevention Law and its implementation order, but is the pre-preparation stage.
Therefore, the person concerned cannot be punished on the ground of missing part of the list, and it is difficult to regard the refusal to submit the list as an obstacle to official duties.
Daegu Municipal Government asked A and others to submit a list of all believers after the first confirmed case appeared in the Xintiandi Church in February last year. The list submitted by A and others omitted 133 believers who did not want to disclose their identities.
The police sent them for inspection on the grounds of suspected obstruction of obstructing the prevention and control of the pandemic.
