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With this move, the Russian Supreme Court rejected the organization’s appeal against the previous court’s decision to recognize Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist organization and put an end to its activity in Russia.
July 18, 2017
Jehovah’s Witnesses Ban in Russia Helps Protect Its Members’ Rights ?
Russia’s decision to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses and to confiscate the organization’s assets in the country may lead to a sharp decline in the group’s numbers and help protect the rights of its adherents.
July 15, 2017
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Jehovah’s Witnesses. They also believe that joggers who attend church services are false believers.
July 5, 2017
Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world.
What happened in:
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Chile
China
Egypt
Eritrea
Japan
Kazakhstan
Korea
Pakistan
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
June 4, 2017
In connection with the decision of the Supreme Court, a schoolgirl faces a transfer to another form of education
May 17, 2017 E. Mikhalevskaya, director of the school in Tomilino (Moscow region), in the presence of the school psychologist and the head of the guard, formally handed over to the parents of the 8-year-old student a document in which, referring to the decision of the Supreme Court against Jehovah’s Witnesses, Notified about the ban on the school grounds “all actions that do not relate to the educational process.”
May 19, 2017
Hearings in the Appeal Board of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the appeal case of the “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” are scheduled for July 17, 2017..
May 2, 2017
Appeal: “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia”
Hearings in the Appeal Board of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the appeal case of the “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” are scheduled for June 13, 2017 at 11:40.
April 27, 2017
What might be confiscated by the Russian Government ?
In September 1999, the Center for the holding of religious assemblies of Jehovah’s Witnesses on Kolomyazhsky Avenue, 21.
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April 19, 2017
A book with a retelling of the life of Christ was recognized as extremist
The prosecutor’s office obtained a ban on the book, which is a chronological retelling of the four Gospels.
April 17, 2017
Is Improvement in Sight for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Uzbekistan?
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Uzbekistan are cautiously optimistic that the Uzbekistan authorities will allow them to practice their faith without interference. Igor Yurchenko, a local representative of Jehovah’s Witnesses involved in meetings with Uzbekistan officials in 2013, stated. . .
April 14, 2017
Russia’s Phony Jehovah’s Witnesses
How state television framed a bunch of university students to make this Christian group seem extra scary.
April 14, 2017
Patriarch Kirill: From Ambitious Reformer to State Hardliner
But his political ambitions have steadily grown. With Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012, he has positioned himself as the key spiritual ally of the officially secular Kremlin, blurring the line between Church and state.
April 14, 2017
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April 13, 2017
Russian Supreme Court Case – Liquidation
The Supreme Court decided to liquidate the centralized religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, as well as all 395 local religious organizations of this religion.
Believers have already begun to prepare a complaint to the appellate instance (the panel consisting of three judges of the Supreme Court), which should be considered within a month.
April 12, 2017
Holocaust Museum on Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER TREATMENT OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES IN RUSSIA
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is deeply concerned over recent reports of harassment of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia and the Russian Justice Ministry’s announced intent to ban the religion due to its members engaging in “extremist activities.”
April 12, 2017
Proceedings; Russia vs Jehovah’s Witnesses
Report: the Supreme Court is hearing a case on the prohibition of religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses
April 12, 2017
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April 12, 2017
Jehovah’s Witnesses former members tell court they were subjected to ‘total control’
Russia’s Supreme Court has heard the testimony of four former members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses who said they had been subjected to ‘total control’ in that religious organization, with no possibility to receive higher education or start a family, TASS reports from the courtroom.
• At its next hearing on April 19, the court is expected to study the written materials of the case and may hear the parties’ oral statements.
April 12, 2017
Interview: Jehovah’s Witnesses’ response to liquidation threat
In one year there were 46 incidents of the planting of extremist materialism in our houses of worship throughout Russia. And the prosecutor general’s office thought that this is a basis. And in March 2017 the Ministry of Justice, at the behest of the prosecutor general’s office, launched an unscheduled large-scale inspection of our administrative center.
April 12, 2017
FYI – CASE OF MORGUNOV v. RUSSIA
The case originated in an application (no. 32546/08) against the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Russian national, Mr Aleksandr Ivanovich Morgunov (“the applicant”), on 24 April 2008.
April 12, 2017
FYI – Misuse of Anti-Extremism in February 2017 – Sova Center
In February, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia adopted a decision regarding liquidation of the local religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Cherkessk as extremist.
A local religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kislovodsk (the Stavropol Region) was fined 500 thousand rubles by the court decision under Article 20.29 of the Administrative Code for possession of extremist materials. . .
April 12, 2017
Apr. 12 – Russia’s Supreme Court to continue hearings on Jehovah’s Witnesses ban
Russia’s Supreme Court will continue hearings on Wednesday on a lawsuit filed by the Justice Ministry requesting to outlaw the Jehovah’s Witnesses that showed “signs of extremist activity.”
April 8, 2017
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia v. in the U.S.
In 1940, the Supreme Court — employing the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection — for the first time applied the First Amendment’s guarantee of free exercise to the states. Cantwell v. Connecticut reversed the conviction of Newton Cantwell and his two sons.
April 7, 2017
Apr. 7 – PROCEEDINGS ON BAN ON JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES IN RUSSIA ENTERS DAY 3
Today was day three of the ongoing hearing in Russia’s Supreme Court on banning the Jehovah’s Witness religious organization in Russia. The court will be in recess until next Wednesday, April 12.
In today’s proceedings, the Court heard the testimony of four of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who presented key arguments against the Ministry of Justice’s claim to liquidate the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses and ban their activities.
April 7, 2017
RUSSIA: JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES BREAK LAW BY REFUSING BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
Jehovah’s Witnesses break the law forbidding “extremism” when its members refuse blood transfusions, Russia’s Justice Ministry said Thursday at a Supreme Court hearing on the question of banning the religious group in the country. The ministry added that if the organization is outlawed, its members could be prosecuted individually for extremism.
