{"id":2882,"date":"2017-04-25T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/04\/25\/the-decision-of-the-supreme-court-provoked-a-severe-act-of-religious-intolerance-in-st-petersburg\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:34","slug":"the-decision-of-the-supreme-court-provoked-a-severe-act-of-religious-intolerance-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/the-decision-of-the-supreme-court-provoked-a-severe-act-of-religious-intolerance-in-st-petersburg\/","title":{"rendered":"The decision of the Supreme Court provoked a severe act of religious intolerance in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few hours after the\u00c2\u00a0Russian Supreme Court announced the decision<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to liquidate the center of Jehovah’s Witnesses, late on the evening of April 20, 2017, a group of men drove up to two passenger cars to the largest worship\u00c2\u00a0building of<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Jehovah’s Witnesses in St. Petersburg, located on Kolomyazhsky Prospekt.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0They blocked the cars from the building.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0One of the visitors, shouting insults at the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the threat of physical harm, threw the facade of the building, including glass doors and windows, with pre-prepared cobblestones.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0The church has suffered significant damage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Such a development of events was predicted by lawyers who spoke in court.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0A little earlier that day, speaking in the debate, Maxim Novakov, representing the center of Jehovah’s Witnesses, predicted that the court could provoke a wave of violence against Witnesses: from damage to property to attacks on believers motivated by religious hatred.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0These are the inevitable consequences of the fact that peaceful people are groundlessly ranked as dangerous criminals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A few hours after the\u00c2\u00a0Russian Supreme Court announced the decision\u00c2\u00a0to liquidate the center of Jehovah’s Witnesses, late on the evening of April 20, 2017, a group of men drove up to two passenger cars to…<\/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-2882","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\/2882","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=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5746,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}