{"id":866,"date":"2011-12-29T11:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/12\/29\/russian-witness-forced-to-quit-job-and-unjustly-indicted-as-a-target-of-religious-harassment\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:32","slug":"russian-witness-forced-to-quit-job-and-unjustly-indicted-as-a-target-of-religious-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/russian-witness-forced-to-quit-job-and-unjustly-indicted-as-a-target-of-religious-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Witness forced to quit job and unjustly indicted as a target of religious harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">AKHTUBINSK, Russia\u2014 Yelena Grigorieva is one of many individuals targeted in an official campaign against Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses throughout Russia. On December 20, 2011, local investigator A. Gluschenko served 43-year-old Mrs. Grigorieva with an unjust indictment for \u201cInciting to Hatred or Hostility and the Debasing of Human Dignity.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Earlier this year, on February 8, 2011, Mrs. Grigorieva\u2019s home was searched and officials seized a number of her personal religious publications. Mrs. Grigorieva became aware that officials were bringing a criminal case against her under Article 282(1) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Later, on February 11, officials visited her place of employment and she was forced to quit her job\u2014supposedly of her own initiative. On February 17, 2011, Mrs. Grigorieva was served with an indictment stating that she distributed to residents of the Akhtubinsk District of the Astrakhan region \u201cpublications of an extremist nature from the Federal List of Extremist Materials.\u201d<\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Mrs. Grigorieva says, \u201cI completely disagree with the charges raised against me because I am convinced of the usefulness and value of Bible principles. Just recently my grandson was born and when he grows up, I hope that he will love God and his neighbors in the same way.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Gulfira Zakaryayeva, an attorney who represents Grigorieva, commented: \u201cSad to say, the investigators were not interested in uncovering the truth. They merely tried to charge my client because she is one of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses.\u201d Grigory Martynov, a spokesman for Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Russia, adds: \u201cWe desire to assist people with practical, Bible-based information and our right to do so should be respected. I hope that the authorities will stop this campaign of harassing Christians like this woman in Akhtubinsk and that all criminal charges against her will be dropped.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.jw-media.org\/rus\/20111228.htm<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKHTUBINSK, Russia\u2014 Yelena Grigorieva is one of many individuals targeted in an official campaign against Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses throughout Russia. On December 20, 2011, local investigator A. Gluschenko served 43-year-old Mrs. Grigorieva with an unjust indictment&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-866","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\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}