{"id":38014,"date":"2025-04-20T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/news\/vosem-let-nazad-verhovnyj-sud-rf-priznal-rossijskih-svidetelej-iegovy-ekstremistskoj-organizacziej\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:37:44","slug":"vosem-let-nazad-verhovnyj-sud-rf-priznal-rossijskih-svidetelej-iegovy-ekstremistskoj-organizacziej","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/en\/news\/vosem-let-nazad-verhovnyj-sud-rf-priznal-rossijskih-svidetelej-iegovy-ekstremistskoj-organizacziej\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight years ago, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Russian Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses as an extremist organization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1540\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/svideteli1-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\u0434\u0435\u043b\u0430 \u0441\u0432\u0438\u0434\u0435\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0439 \u0418\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0432\u044b\" class=\"wp-image-30326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/svideteli1-1-3.jpg 1540w, https:\/\/memopzk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/svideteli1-1-3-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/memopzk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/svideteli1-1-3-1536x598.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation issued a decision recognizing the \u201cAdministrative Center of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Russia\u201d as an extremist organization and liquidated it. On July 17, the decision came into force, and on August 17 of the same year, the Ministry of Justice added all Jehovah\u2019s Witness communities to the list of banned extremist organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past eight years, <strong>at least 904 Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses<\/strong> or people mistakenly identified by security forces as Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have been subjected to criminal prosecution in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories. <strong>525 people<\/strong> have already been sentenced (97.7% of the sentences are guilty).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, at least <strong>607 people are<\/strong> being prosecuted, of whom <strong>183 are deprived of their liberty<\/strong> (108 people are in penal colonies, 46 people are in custody, 10 people are in correctional centers doing forced labor, and 7 people are under house arrest).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We consider imprisoned Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses to be political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view detailed statistics on persecuted Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses <a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/appvNc945GeBZzbVI\/pag9r9HuOqEJZoIOp\">in our dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-38014","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-type-nashi-novosti-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eight years ago, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Russian Jehovah&#039;s Witnesses as an extremist organization - Political prisoners support. 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