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Estonia: Penalty for the avoidance of military service, and the requirements to be met in order to perform alternative service (January 1998 - September 1998)

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 September 1998
Citation / Document Symbol EST30124.E
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Estonia: Penalty for the avoidance of military service, and the requirements to be met in order to perform alternative service (January 1998 - September 1998), 1 September 1998, EST30124.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad1a68.html [accessed 3 June 2023]
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The penalty for the avoidance of military service, and the requirements to be met in order to perform alternative service, could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Electronic sources: IRB databases, Internet, NEXIS/LEXIS, REFWORLD, WNC.

Refusing to Bear Arms: A World Survey of Conscription and Conscientious Objection to Military Service: Part 1: Europe. War Resisters: 1998.

Transition [Prague]. January 1998 - August 1998.

Resource Centre country file on Estonia. January 1998 - September 1998.

Two oral sources contacted did not provide information on the requested topics.

Unsuccessful attempts to contact other oral sources.

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