{"id":2856,"date":"2017-04-12T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/04\/12\/russias-supreme-court-to-continue-hearings-on-jehovahs-witnesses-ban\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:30","slug":"russias-supreme-court-to-continue-hearings-on-jehovahs-witnesses-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/russias-supreme-court-to-continue-hearings-on-jehovahs-witnesses-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court to continue hearings on Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hearing, eyewitnesses will be questioned and then the court will be able to study the case files and hear the arguments<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>MOSCOW, April 12. \/TASS\/. Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court will continue hearings on Wednesday on a lawsuit filed by the Justice Ministry requesting to outlaw the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses that showed &#8220;signs of extremist activity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The court earlier heard the position of the ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s representative and lawyers of the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses. At Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hearing, eyewitnesses will be questioned and then the court will be able to study the case files and hear the arguments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In its lawsuit, the ministry pointed to various violations in the organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s activities revealed during a surprise inspection, including of the Law on Counteracting Extremist Activities. The ministry asks to recognize the organization and its 395 local branches as extremists, ban their activity and seize property.<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LqRAj7w.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"650\" height=\"418\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For its part, the organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s press service told TASS that they were alarmed by the decision, since it could affect 175,000 active believers. The Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses spokesman Ivan Bilenko said the organization was prepared to press for its rights in any courts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On October 12, 2016, Moscow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tverskoy district court issued a warning to the Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses Administrative Center in connection with the revelations of extremism there. Under Russian law, a religious association or organization is subject to termination if it does not remedy the specified manifestations of extremism before the required deadline or displays new ones.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On January 16, 2017, Moscow City Court passed a resolution that corroborated the validity of the warning for extremist activities.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses is an international religious organization that supports offbeat views on the essence of the Christian faith and provides special interpretations of many commonly accepted notions. In Russia, it had 21 local organizations but three of them were eliminated for extremism.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/tass.com\/world\/940837<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hearing, eyewitnesses will be questioned and then the court will be able to study the case files and hear the arguments MOSCOW, April 12. \/TASS\/. 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