{"id":12928,"date":"2017-04-21T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org?p=12928"},"modified":"2017-04-27T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:01:45","slug":"ban-on-the-church-of-jehova-s-witnesses-is-religious-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/ban-on-the-church-of-jehova-s-witnesses-is-religious-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on the Church of Jehova\u2019s Witnesses is religious discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Article 19 of the Russian Constitution reads: \u201cAny form of restriction of the rights of citizens on the basis of social, racial, ethnic, linguistic or religious affiliation is prohibited\u201d. The recent ban on the activities of the Administrative Center of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in the Russian Federation is precisely the case of restriction of the rights of citizens based on their religious beliefs and is a clear case of discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Declaring a peaceful religious organization (in fact, a serious Christian denomination that has millions of followers worldwide and hundreds of thousands of followers in the Russian Federation alone) is a grave violation of the right to freedom of conscience. Declaring Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses an extremist organization entails not only the liquidation of a legal entity (the Administrative Center itself), but is also a formal recognition of all the followers of this denomination as violators of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icj-cij.org\/docket\/files\/166\/19394.pdf\">On April 19, 2017, the International Court of Justice in Hague <\/a>ordered Russia to abolish <a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/www\/11243.html?lang=en\">the ban of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People<\/a>, which also had been previously declared \u201can organization banned by the Russian Federation\u201d. The Court found the prohibition of the Mejlis to be discriminatory and demanded that the Russian Federation revoke this decision by way of an interim measure for the period of consideration of this legal claim made by Ukrainian government against Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Credo of the Anti-Discrimination Center \u201cMemorial\u201d is that \u201can indispensable condition for observing the rights of everyone is to recognize a non-discriminatory attitude in ensuring all of these rights\u201d. It is obvious that the rights of both Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses and the Crimean Tatar people were violated by the legal prohibitions of the respective organizations and both bans are discriminatory. ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d considers prohibition of the Administrative Center of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses to be a violation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the norms of international law, which guarantee freedom of conscience and protection against discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The authorities of the Russian Federation should not await decisions of high international courts demanding abolition of discriminatory rulings: it is necessary to immediately abandon the practice of discriminatory persecution of peoples and religions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 19 of the Russian Constitution reads: \u201cAny form of restriction of the rights of citizens on the basis of social, racial, ethnic, linguistic or religious affiliation is prohibited\u201d. The recent ban on the activities of the Administrative Center of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,2],"tags":[213],"strategy_cases":[],"campaign":[],"archive":[],"filter-content":[],"regions":[],"class_list":["post-12928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-news","tag-discrimination-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",550,340,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli-125x125.jpg",125,125,true],"medium":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli-300x185.jpg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",550,340,false],"large":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli-500x309.jpg",500,309,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",550,340,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",550,340,false],"pub-thumb":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli-220x136.jpg",220,136,true],"post-thumb":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli-170x170.jpg",170,170,true],"wcicon":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",48,30,false],"wcsquare":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",300,185,false],"wcsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",250,155,false],"wcstandard":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",550,340,false],"wcbig":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",550,340,false],"wcfixedheightsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",291,180,false],"wcfixedheightmedium":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",485,300,false],"wcfixedheight":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",550,340,false],"wccarouselsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",210,130,false],"wccarousel":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",400,247,false],"wcslider":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/svideteli.jpg",550,340,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Article 19 of the Russian Constitution reads: \u201cAny form of restriction of the rights of citizens on the basis of social, racial, ethnic, linguistic or religious affiliation is prohibited\u201d. The recent ban on the activities of the Administrative Center of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in the Russian Federation is precisely the case of restriction of the rights of citizens based on their religious beliefs and is a clear case of discrimination. Declaring a peaceful religious organization (in fact, a serious Christian denomination that has millions of followers worldwide and hundreds of thousands of followers in the Russian Federation alone) is a grave&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/category\/news\/breaking-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"admin3","url":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/author\/admin3\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"strategy_cases","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/strategy_cases?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"campaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaign?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"filter-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-content?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=12928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}