{"id":297,"date":"2010-06-05T19:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2010\/06\/05\/jehovahs-witnesses-arrested-for-extremism-in-russia-2\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:32","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-arrested-for-extremism-in-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witnesses-arrested-for-extremism-in-russia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses Arrested For Extremism In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">(NewsCore) &#8211; A group of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses was arrested in Russia for alleged extremism, RIA Novosti said Friday.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">They were held in the southwestern Siberian city of Omsk on suspicion of circulating books and pamphlets banned by the Russian authorities, the state-owned news agency reported.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">A criminal prosecution is likely to follow, with the group accused of inspiring hatred or enmity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses movement, which has seven million followers worldwide and 300,000 in Russia, has been banned in a number of former Soviet republics.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Formed in the 19th century in the United States and best-known for its door-to-door evangelism, its followers believe the world will soon be destroyed at Armageddon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.myfoxla.com\/dpps\/news\/jehovah&#8217;s-witnesses-arrested-for-extremism-in-russia-dpgonc-km-20100605_7932538<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NewsCore) &#8211; A group of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses was arrested in Russia for alleged extremism, RIA Novosti said Friday. They were held in the southwestern Siberian city of Omsk on suspicion of circulating books and pamphlets&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-297","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\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}