The New World Translation is absolutely forbidden in Russia.

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The New World Translation is absolutely forbidden in Russia. ?

Brothers not only can't meet, or preach, but now that they find our Bible, they go to jail.
On 20 December 2017 at 21:55, the leningrad regional court confirmed the decision of the city court of vyborg to recognize the Russian translation of the Bible by Jehovah's witnesses as "extremist material". The Representatives of the right-Holder intend to appeal this decision.

Such erroneous judicial decisions on the recognition of certain extremist printed materials are the basis for all accusations of extremism against Jehovah's witnesses, as well as the basis of the court's decision. On the liquidation and prohibition of all registered organizations of this religion and the confiscation of their property in the revenue of the state.

The Court's ridiculous decision to ban the bible itself clearly demonstrated the perversity of mechanisms to recognize the divine services of witnesses, including incompetent or openly biased expert opinions and the violation of the law of court decisions.

In 2014, the situation with the experience and legal procedures in relation to the sacred text has attracted the attention of the president of Russia, so he made a legislative initiative - to protect the sacred books of different religions, including the bible , the action of anti-extremist legislation (in other words, the incompetence of prosecutors, experts and judges). However, even this did not help to save one of the bible translations from yesterday's court decision.

International organizations have repeatedly called on Russia to abandon the existing list of extremist materials, to review and revoke court rulings against Jehovah's witnesses, who are currently being subjected to unfair treatment on the basis of such judicial decisions.

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BREAKING NEWS | New World Translation Remains Banned in Russia

Today, the Leningrad Regional Court denied our appeal of the Vyborg City Court’s August ruling that banned the Russian-language New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT), declaring it an extremist publication. Approximately 30 people attended the hearing, including representatives of the Britain, the Netherlands, the Switzerland, and the United States embassies.

Several times during the course of the hearing, the defense presented clear evidence demonstrating the bias and unqualified nature of the court-appointed expert study, which claimed the NWT is not a Bible, paving the way for it to be declared “extremist.”

The so-called experts were resolute in their claim that the NWT is not a Bible because it allegedly does not refer to itself as one. The defense, however, drew attention to page five of the 2007 Russian-language NWT, which clearly states: “This is a new translation of the Bible into Russian.” The defense criticized the so-called experts, who worked for 287 days on their review and yet missed this simple fact in the third paragraph of the NWT’s foreword.

When questioned, one of the court-appointed experts further defended her original claim by stating that the NWT cannot be considered a Bible unless it is marked "by the blessing of the patriarch" or matches word for word with such a translation. The “experts” also objected to the use of God’s personal name, Jehovah, and claimed that the text of the NWT does not support certain church dogma. The judge rejected any motion by the defense for a new unbiased expert study of the NWT.

After their appeal was rejected today, our brothers have no other remedy available within the Russian legal system and will submit the case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world are confident that no human institution can succeed in wiping out God’s Word and that present attempts to prevent its spread will ultimately fail.—Isaiah 40:8.