{"id":2878,"date":"2017-04-22T18:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/04\/22\/berlin-troubled-over-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:29","slug":"berlin-troubled-over-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/berlin-troubled-over-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin troubled over Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses&#8217; ban in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: block; line-height: 20px\" class=\"b-material__preview\">On April 20, Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court declared Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses to be an extremist organization and outlawed its activity throughout Russia, thereby upholding the Justice Ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s request<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>BERLIN, April 21. \/TASS\/. Germany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s government has voiced concerns over the decision of Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court to rule that the Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses religious group is an extremist organization and ban its activities, German Foreign Ministry Spokesman Martin Schaefer said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">&#8220;The federal government is concerned that Russia has banned the activity of Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses,&#8221; Schaefer said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">On Thursday, Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court declared Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses to be an extremist organization and outlawed its activity throughout Russia, thereby upholding the Justice Ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s requests. The court declared the immediate shutdown of all 395 local chapters of Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses in Russia and transferred the organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s assets into state custody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mi5heIo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"German Foreign Ministry Spokesman Martin Schaefer   More: http:\/\/tass.com\/world\/942539\" width=\"650\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; float: left; width: 602px\" class=\"b-material-pic__title\">German Foreign Ministry Spokesman Martin Schaefer<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">The Supreme Court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ruling has not taken effect yet. If the organization appeals it, the ruling will come into force as of the moment the appellate court pronounces its opinion or in 30 days\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">Earlier in the day, the European External Action Service said in a statement that Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses &#8220;must be able to peacefully enjoy freedom of assembly without interference, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation as well as by Russia&#8217;s international commitments and international human rights standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses is an international religious organization that supports offbeat views on the essence of the Christian faith and <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial\">provides special interpretations of many commonly accepted notions. In Russia, it had 21 local chapters but three of them were shut down for extremism.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/tass.com\/world\/942539<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 20, Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court declared Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses to be an extremist organization and outlawed its activity throughout Russia, thereby upholding the Justice Ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s request BERLIN, April 21. \/TASS\/. Germany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s government has voiced concerns&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-2878","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\/2878","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=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5644,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}