Russia’s Supreme Court has banned Jehovah’s Witnesses from the country.
The court pronounced the decision after describing the group as an extremist organization
Four former members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses had told a Russia’s Supreme Court how they were swayed by the 'church' against receiving higher education or having a family.
A wtiness, Natalia Koretskaya from St. Petersburg had told the court she had been a member of that organisation from 1995 to 2009 and had discovered over this period that the group's members “were living under full and complete control of the "Jehovah’s Witnesses" Administrative Centre.”
“The leaders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses formally watch canonical compliance with the norms but in reality the talk is about absolute control of an individual’s personal life – his intimate life, education and work,” Koretskaya told the court.
Koretskaya said she had been dismissed from the religious organisation and its members had been banned to communicate with her after she started an officially unregistered relationship with a man.
“Therefore, a person turns out to be expelled into the outer world, in which he has already abandoned how to live over the years of his stay in the organisation,” Koretskaya added.
Justice Yury Ivanenko in his verdict on Thursday, said Russia had decided to shut down “the administrative centre of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the local organisations in its possession and turn their property over to the Russian Federation.”
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