Russian Press Digest - Russica Izvestia
Russian Press Digest - Russica Izvestia
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Saturday, March 27, 2004
Court eliminated the Witnesses.
By Yulia Taratuta.
Moscow court banned the Jehovah's Witnesses society Moscow Golovinsky District
Court has issued an order that the local Jehovah’s Witnesses society be closed
down. A lawsuit had been filed earlier this year by the prosecutor’s office of
Moscow’s northern district, upon the request of the "youth defense committee",
uniting the relatives of young people, who became the Jehovah's Witnesses'
followers. The members of the committee were saying their relatives "changed
beyond recognition" after joining the society and severed relations with their
families. Also, the religious society's activities laid significant burden on
family budgets. The committee's accusations were backed by the Orthodox Church,
which considers the Jehovah's Witnesses society a sect. Representatives of the
Justice Ministry's Moscow department also pointed to the fact that members of
the society don't vote in elections and do not respect the Russia's state
symbols - national anthem and emblem.
The consideration of the case was stopped repeatedly for absence of corpus
delicti. But these decisions of lower level courts were always cancelled by the
Moscow prosecutor office and the Prosecutor General's Office after new
complaints from the youth defense committee appeared.
The court's decision to ban the Witnesses, passed yesterday, will come into
effect after ten days. However, the religious society have already said it will
appeal the verdict in the Moscow City Court. Also, the society hopes to get the
support of the European Human Rights Court, to which it had appealed protesting
religious discrimination and the infringement upon the freedom of faith in
Moscow.
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