Photo: Supreme Court of Russia. Moscow, Povarskaya street
Jehovah's Witnesses will appeal to the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia against the decision to ban them
MoscowOn September 11, 2017, at 11:30 a.m., lawyers for Jehovah's Witnesses filed a supervisory appeal against the Supreme Court's decision to liquidate and ban all 396 registered religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The complaint must be appointed for consideration by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia within 3 months.
The believers ask to completely cancel the decision of the Supreme Court of April 20, 2017 and suspend its execution until the end of the proceedings in the supervisory court.
The decision of the Russian Supreme Court, which unjustifiably classified an entire religion as "extremists", has already entailed the most negative consequences for believers in the form of dismissals, waves of religious hatred, attacks, police raids, criminal cases and imprisonment of innocent people.
The international community unanimously condemned the court's decision.
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