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Jehovah's Witnesses Ask the Supreme Court to Dismiss the Justice Ministry's Lawsuit

Moscow

On March 16, 2017, the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia filed an application with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with a request to leave the claim of the Ministry of Justice of Russia without movement due to non-compliance with the rules for filing a statement of claim.

The law requires the plaintiff, who has state powers, to first notify the defendant, and only then submit documents to the court. But in violation of this norm, the believers learned about the filing of a lawsuit for the liquidation (!) of their Administrative Center from the media, and after 2 days they still have not received a copy of the lawsuit. In these circumstances, the administrative statement of claim should be left without movement, since the principle of adversarial and equality of the parties to administrative proceedings has been grossly violated.

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