The management center of Jehovah's Witnesses appealed the warning from the Prosecutor General's Office

On June 1, 2016, the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia appealed in court against a warning against extremist activity.

On June 6, 2016, the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia reported that on June 1, it filed an administrative claim with the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow to invalidate the warning against extremist activity.

a warning to the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses issued On March 2, 2016, Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Viktor Grin . On April 29, 2016, the organization filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General, but did not receive a response from him within a month.

In the opinion of Jehovah's Witnesses, the warning of the Prosecutor General's Office contains significant legal contradictions. In particular, it states that 88 publications of Jehovah's Witnesses have been recognized by Russian courts as extremist. However, the prosecutor's office, which themselves initiated the recognition of these materials as extremist, has never declared the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia as an interested person in court and consistently objected to its entry into the proceedings.

According to the federal law "On Combating Extremist Activities", if the warning is not declared illegal by the court, and the violations indicated in the warning by the prosecutor's office are not eliminated, or if new signs of extremist activity are found in the activities of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses, the organization is subject to liquidation.

We consider the liquidation of organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses for extremism, the persecution of members of their communities and the banning of texts as religious discrimination.

Sources

• Message from the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. 2016. June 6.