PROSECUTOR'S
OFFICE
OF PROKHLADNYI OF KABARDINO-BALKARIA REPUBLIC FINDS VIOLATION OF
LEGISLATION ON COMBATING EXTREMIST ACTIVITY
Official
Website
of the prosecutor's
office Kabardino-Balkaria republic, 16 February 2018
The
prosecutor's
office of the city of Prokhladnyi, within the context of
executing an order of
the prosecutor general of the Russian federation of 19 November
2009, "On
organizing prosecutorial oversight for compliance with
legislation on combating
extremist activity," has been conducting on a regular basis
monitoring of
information communication networks on the Internet.
In
the course of
monitoring, four websites of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
were found,
which contain various sections, publications, magazines, books,
video, and news
about the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses.
In
accordance
with the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian federation
of 20 April
2017, the religious organization of the "Administrative Center
of
Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" and local religious organizations
that are
members of its structure were prohibited.
On the basis of the results of the monitoring that was conducted, four petitions for restriction of access to the aforementioned web resources were sent to a court. (tr. by PDS, posted 16 February 2018)
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