{"id":630,"date":"2011-02-03T17:21:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/02\/03\/jehovahs-witness-convicted\/"},"modified":"2011-02-03T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T17:21:21","slug":"jehovahs-witness-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witness-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah&#8217;s Witness Convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">In a first, a court convicted a member of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses religious sect over her refusal to sanction blood transfusion for a relative, a procedure banned by the sect\u2019s teachings, Interfax reported Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Natalya Podlozhevich was fined 5,000 rubles ($170) by a magistrate of the Khanty-Mansiisk region\u2019s town of Kogalym, which found her guilty of abandoning in danger her 5-year-old son.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The unnamed boy was hospitalized last February in serious condition, the cause of which was not specified. Medics said he required blood transfusion, but his mother refused to sanction the procedure. The boy died two days later.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The ruling may set a precedent for other cases against Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\u2019 members on similar charges. \b<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/news\/article\/jehovahs-witness-convicted\/430292.html<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, a court convicted a member of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses religious sect over her refusal to sanction blood transfusion for a relative, a procedure banned by the sect\u2019s teachings, Interfax reported Wednesday. Natalya&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}