Jehovah Witnesses have been labeled an extremist group. This is the place of Russia, the place its Justice Ministry has filed a request with the nation’s supreme court docket for the classification, probably endangering the 175,000 members throughout the nation.

Jehovah’s Witnesses, with historic previous of over 140 years worldwide, first filed to be a recognised religion, a requirement in Russia, in 1991. They have been granted renewal in 1999, in accordance with the group’s worldwide web page.

Despite the official recognition, Jehovah’s Witness teams have confronted periodic harassment by regulation enforcement on the native stage. Russia strikes to label Jehovah Witnesses extremists The Justice submitting was launched Thursday however shouldn't be dated and has not been scheduled for authorized motion, USA Today reported.

It was confirmed by RAPSI, the Russian Legal Information Agency. Russian officers raided the group’s nationwide headquarters in February and confiscated a reported 70,000 paperwork which have been turned over to the Russian General Prosecutor’s workplace.

Local prosecutors have likened the faith to a cult and have known as it a hazard to Russian households. It shouldn't be the primary time Jehovah’s Witnesses have confronted authorized hurdles. In 2009, a court docket dominated a Russian-language model of the group’s publication The Watchtower an extremist publication and barred it. In 2015, a Russian court docket dominated the group’s web site was additionally an extremist publication.

The worldwide head of the Jehovah’s Witnesses estimated there are about 175,000 training members in Russia in some 2,200 congregations. The press workplace for the Russian department of the religion launched a press release Thursday in response to the submitting, saying it could symbolize “dire consequences” for non secular freedom in Russia if authorized.

“Extremism is deeply alien to the Bible-based beliefs and morality of Jehovah’s Witnesses,” the assertion acknowledged. “Persecution of the devoted for peaceable anti-extremism legal guidelines is constructed on frank fraud, incompetent particular person ‘experts’ and, in consequence, a miscarriage of justice.

” Jehovah Witnesses emerged from the Bible Student motion, based within the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell with the formation of Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society,with vital organisational and doctrinal changes underneath the administration of Joseph Franklin Rutherford.

The title Jehovah’s witnesses was adopted in 1931 to distinguish themselves from different Bible Student teams and symbolize a break with the legacy of Russell’s traditions.

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