Two cases of religious intolerance of Muscovites towards Jehovah's Witnesses: January 2015

In January 2015, two cases of Muscovites showing aggression towards Jehovah's Witnesses were recorded.

On January 30, 2015, it became known about two cases of aggression against attitude towards members of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses in Moscow.

January 17, 2015 in Moscow on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya two Jehovah's Witnesses preached in a residential building. One of the residents of the house agreed to take the offered brochures, and when the believers were already leaving, he shouted at them and burst out of the pepper spray in the eye of one of the preachers, causing him "unbearable pain."

January 26, 2015 in Moscow, a middle-aged man, previously seen in manifestation of aggressiveness towards Jehovah's Witnesses, pushed to the ground a woman preacher who was standing next to the information boards and overturned stands.

Sources

• Information about the manifestation of religious intolerance towards Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia from December 16, 2014 to January 30, 2015 // Press Service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. 2015. January 30.