{"id":863,"date":"2011-12-23T19:57:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/12\/23\/court-acquits-jehovahs-witnesses-leader-charged-with-extremism\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:35","slug":"court-acquits-jehovahs-witnesses-leader-charged-with-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/court-acquits-jehovahs-witnesses-leader-charged-with-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Court acquits Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses leader charged with extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">GORNO-ALTAYSK, December 22 &#8211; RAPSI. The Altai Republic Supreme Court revoked on Thursday the sentence of the head of a local branch of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses who was earlier convicted of religious extremism, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday. The court has also ordered to terminate the case.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses is an international religious organization. Many traditional religions consider it to be a pseudo-Christian sect. Its management center in Russia is in St. Petersburg.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The court decided to cancel the Gorno-Altaysk City Court&#8217;s judgment in Kalistratov&#8217;s cae, to close the criminal case against him since his actions do not constitute a crime and to acknowledge Kalistratov&#8217;s right to restitution,&#8221; the presiding judge said.<\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Kalistratov told RIA Novosti that he is satisfied with the acquittal.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Gorno-Altaysk City Court found Kalistratov guilty of extremism on November 3 and sentenced him to 100 hours of community service<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Earlier, the same court acquitted Kalistratov on April 14 after the prosecution failed to establish a crime. However, the Altai Republic Supreme Court canceled the acquittal judgment upon the request of the prosecutor&#8217;s office and remanded the case for reconsideration to the same court.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The investigators opened the case against Kalistratov after he published and distributed 48 religious articles of a &#8220;strong extremist nature&#8221; allegedly aimed at discrediting other religions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Source: http:\/\/rapsinews.com\/judicial_news\/20111222\/259101252.html<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GORNO-ALTAYSK, December 22 &#8211; RAPSI. The Altai Republic Supreme Court revoked on Thursday the sentence of the head of a local branch of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses who was earlier convicted of religious extremism, RIA Novosti reported&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-863","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\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5776,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/5776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}