FAMILY TIES OF JEHOVAH'S
WITNESSES LEAD
TO OPENING CRIMINAL CASES
Vrossii.onlain,
1 October 2019
In 2017 the Russian
Supreme Court ruled
the international religious organization "Administrative Center
of
Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" and 365 local religious
organizations of
Jehovah's Witnesses to be extremist. Funding of such American
totalitarian
organizations comes from over the hill, namely from Brooklyn.
The prohibition of its
activity is based
not on theological religious reasons, but on governmental
political ones: the
Jehovists do not recognize the national anthem, the flag,
shield, and other
governmental symbols and they refuse service in the army. In
practice, required
service in the army is usually replaced for them by alternative
civilian
service, but even in that the Jehovah's Witnesses consistently
refuse any work
that is connected with military organizations, for which they
are taken to
court and punished. After all, if it is possible for Jehovists,
why could not
all other draftees dodge the army?
Jehovah's Witnesses also
often are
accused of endangering the life of their members because of the
prohibition on
blood transfusion, of destroying families, of physical and
psychological
violence of a totalitarian nature, and of forcing believers to
transfer their
property to the sect. A number of investigators have pointed out
that being in
the Witnesses organization increases the risk of developing
psychiatric
illnesses and disorders. At various times, members of the
extremist
organization have been accused of rape, kidnapping children,
murders,
encouraging murder and suicide, fraud, theft, racism, extortion,
causing bodily
harm, prostitution, and pedophilia.
For all of these reasons,
Jehovah's
Witnesses as an antigovernmental sect are banned in 37
countries, including
Spain, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
China, and North Korea.
But despite such a track
record, the
recruitment of converts continues. People thus far do not
understand and do not
imagine how dangerous the religious organization of Jehovah's
Witnesses is and
that it is capable of causing harm to the personality and health
of a convert,
to his family, and also to state interests, and they continue to
fall into the
net of the "kindly" sectarians.
Thus, on 30 September, in
the city of
Podolsk of Moscow oblast, security forces put an end to the
activity of a
religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. The 67-year-old
leader of the
extremist cell, Yury Krutiakov, managed to lure into the
activity of the
forbidden organization his wife and several other residents of
suburban Moscow,
by suggesting they acquaint themselves with brochures and video
and audio
materials. Now he is facing criminal liability based on part 2
of article 282.2
of the CC RF (participation in the activity of an extremist
organization). The
Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) for Moscow oblast has
opened against
the leader of the religious cell and another four devotees five
criminal cases.
(tr. by PDS, posted 3 October 2019)
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