SESTRORESK
DISTRICT
COURT LEGALIZES SEIZURE OF FOREIGN PROPERTY
Jehovah's
Witnesses
in Russia, 7 December 2017
On
7 December
2017, after a four-hour judicial session, the court announced
its decision—to
find a seventeen-year-old deal to be invalid. If this decision
remains in
force, it could entail a reversion of a large piece of real
estate in the
village of Solnechnoe (St. Petersburg) into state income. The
decision casts a
shadow on the inviolability of property rights in the Russian
federation, where
no organization, even on an international scale, can be assured
of its
transactions, even if they are officially registered by
appropriate agencies.
All property of the Jehovah's Witnesses that is being seized has been dedicated to Jehovah God, and therefore they believe that it belongs to God and is being taken from him. As the Bible directs, Jehovah's Witnesses cast all their cares upon God (1 Peter 5.7). (tr. by PDS, posted 12 December 2017)
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