{"id":796,"date":"2011-05-23T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/05\/23\/jehovahs-witness-leader-arrested-for-extremism\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:35","slug":"jehovahs-witness-leader-arrested-for-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witness-leader-arrested-for-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah\u2019s Witness leader arrested for extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">A Jehovah\u2019s Witness leader has been charged with inciting religious hatred, local investigators said on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The coordinator of the city\u2019s Jehovah&#8217;s Witness church, estimated to have 90 followers, is accused of distributing extremist materials and conducting public sermons on the superiority of their religion over others.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Investigators in the Volga region city of Yoshkar-Ola say a large volume of materials was seized during searches. Experts established that two books and two brochures contain \u201cslogans of an extremist nature,\u201d RIA Novosti reported.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, which has some 7 million followers worldwide and 300,000 in Russia, are banned in a number of Russian regions and in some former Soviet republics.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses branch in Moscow was dissolved by district court ruling in 2004, but the European Court of Human Rights declared the decision illegal last June.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.themoscownews.com\/russia\/20110518\/188675015.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jehovah\u2019s Witness leader has been charged with inciting religious hatred, local investigators said on Wednesday. The coordinator of the city\u2019s Jehovah&#8217;s Witness church, estimated to have 90 followers, is accused of distributing extremist materials&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-796","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\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5780,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}