Jehovah’s Witnesses dissolved in Russia’s Cherkessk

[Guest Nicole]

The organization faces a ban in all of Russia

The supreme court in Russia’s Karachay-Cherkessia declared the local Jehovah’s Witnesses an extremist organization on February 10 and ordered for it to be dissolved and its property forfeited to the state.

Earlier, the republic’s prosecutor office had accused the organization of producing and disseminating extremist materials. The Witnesses were then forced to pay a fine and had their literature seized, however, as they wouldn’t give up what the prosecutor’s office referred to as “extremist activity”, the matter was taken to court.

The Russian prosecutor general’s crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses started with a notice of “unacceptability of extremist activity” sent to the organization’s management last April. Citing religious discrimination, JW representatives appealed against the notice. However, Moscow’s city court on January 16 upheld it, ordering the organisation to “fix the violations” unless it wanted to be banned on the entire territory of the Russian Federation.

Seven of JW’s regional branches have been closed down in Russia by courts. In the southern Russian city of Taganrog, 16 Witnesses were convicted for failing to comply with the ban. Four criminal cases have recently been launched against several members of the organization for “inciting hatred” and “creating a non-commercial entity violating citizens’ rights”. 

In 2005, a Moscow court ordered the dissolution of the capital’s JW community. In 2010, the European Court for Human Rights found the court in violation of the European convention. And in 2015, the community finally had its registration resumed. 

There are 100 to 150 thousand Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia. The Christian denomination emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in 1872 by Charles Russel. It reports a worldwide membership of more than eight million adherents.

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[The Librarian]

VS recognized lawful elimination Jehovah's Witnesses in the city of Cherkessk

MOSCOW, on May 26 — RIA Novosti. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the decision on recognition of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization of the city of Cherkessk of extremist and her elimination, the correspondent RIA Novosti from the courtroom reports. "The judicial board has decided: the decision of the Supreme Court of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic of February ‪10 ‬ which has satisfied the administrative claim of the prosecutor for recognition Jehovah's Witnesses of the city of Cherkessk with the extremist organization, her elimination and the address of real estate in the form of the land plot and the building in property of the state to leave without change" — the judge has announced the decision. Thus, the court has rejected the appeal complaint of the organization, and the judgment about her elimination has taken legal effect. According to prosecutor's office of Karachay-Cherkessia, local Jehovah's Witnesses check materials regarding performance of the legislation on counteraction extremist деятельности.© Fotolia/robypangy "Jehovah's Witnesses" against Ministry of Justice were the cause for the requirement about elimination: when the tochkaprokuratura of the region is put I have brought the organization to administrative responsibility for article 20.29 Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences for distribution of the forbidden literature and the subsequent continuation of illegal extremist activity by her. Jehovah's Witnesses — the international religious organization with the headquarters in Brooklyn (New York). As it is reported on the website of iyegovist, "Witnesses" exist in Russia more than 100 years. Since 2004 on decision of the courts a number of communities and local offices Jehovah's Witnesses have been closed in regions — in the Belgorod, Samara, Rostov, Oryol regions and in other subjects to Rf.Kroma of that, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in April recognized extremist head office Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia — "The administrative center Jehovah's Witnesses", having also recognized her extremist. This decision hasn't taken legal effect yet.

 

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