{"id":2845,"date":"2017-04-05T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/04\/05\/russian-supreme-court-rejects-jehovah-witnesses-counterclaim-seeking-their-recognition-as-victims-of-political-repression\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:30","slug":"russian-supreme-court-rejects-jehovah-witnesses-counterclaim-seeking-their-recognition-as-victims-of-political-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/russian-supreme-court-rejects-jehovah-witnesses-counterclaim-seeking-their-recognition-as-victims-of-political-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Supreme Court rejects Jehovah Witnesses&#8217; counterclaim seeking their recognition as victims of political repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 3px 10px 15px; text-indent: 15px; line-height: 15px\" class=\"text\">Moscow, April 5, Interfax &#8211; The Russian Supreme Court, having heard the parties&#8217; arguments, decided not to accept the counterclaim filed by Russia&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<em>Jehovah Witnesses<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0seeking recognition of their organization as a victim of political repression.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Decline to accept the claim. Court jurisdiction roles do not envisage the acceptance of a counterclaim. At the same time, we will exercise judicial control over the legality of the work of the Justice Ministry on the basis of the claimant&#8217;s written objections,&#8221; the judge said. A representative of the organization earlier said in court: &#8220;We are asking to hear our counterclaim seeking the recognition of the Russian religious organization\u00c2\u00a0<em>Jehovah Witnesses<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0as a victim of political repression and recognize the political persecution and the actions taken by the Justice Ministry on us as illegal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He had asked for the organization&#8217;s claim to be heard together with the Justice Ministry&#8217;s claim.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday is considering the issue of recognizing Russia&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<em>Jehovah Witnesses<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0as an extremist organization and banning its activities on the territory of Russia under an administrative lawsuit filed by the Russian Justice Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The religious organization filed the claim on March 15, when the work of the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Jehovah Witnesses<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0was suspended for extremist activities on the orders of the Justice Ministry until the hearing of the lawsuit in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax-religion.com\/print.php?act=news&#038;id=13686\">Print this page<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, April 5, Interfax &#8211; The Russian Supreme Court, having heard the parties&#8217; arguments, decided not to accept the counterclaim filed by Russia&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0Jehovah Witnesses\u00c2\u00a0seeking recognition of their organization as a victim of political repression. &#8220;Decline&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5665,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/5665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}