LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS | Russian Authorities Seize Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses

[The Librarian]

The assembly hall seizure follows on the heels of a court ruling just one week earlier that threatens to take the property used by the Witnesses’ national headquarters, located near St. Petersburg.

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[Bible Speaks]

RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE  ASSEMBLY  HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND SELLS IT TO A MEDICAL COMPANY FOR ABOUT 5 BILLION RUBLES

On December 14, 2017, Russian authorities broke into the Kolomyazhskiy Assembly Hall of JehovahÂ’s Witnesses in St. Petersburg, cordoned off the building, and took control of the property. None of JehovahÂ’s Witnesses in the hall were injured during the raid, and the building appears to be undamaged.

The Assembly Hall is the largest property that Russian authorities have seized from the Witnesses since the July 17, 2017, ruling of the Appellate Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Russian federation...... .. 

The Assembly Hall seats 1,500 and was used for large religious meetings and by local congregations after it was renovated in 2002.Attorneys for the Witnesses learned that the authorities had re-registered the Assembly Hall under the ownership of the Russian Federation. The property has since been transferred to a new owner, a neighboring health center, which has already posted a new sign on the gate................. 

 The Witnesses are pursuing every available appeal against the government’s actions, including applications to the European Court of Human Rights and complaints to the UN Human Rights Committee.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/by-region/russia/authorities-seize-assembly-hall-of-jehovahs-witnesses/

 

[Bible Speaks]

RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE  ASSEMBLY  HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND SELLS IT TO A MEDICAL COMPANY FOR ABOUT 5 BILLION RUBLES

On December 14, 2017, Russian authorities broke into the Kolomyazhskiy Assembly Hall of JehovahÂ’s Witnesses in St. Petersburg, cordoned off the building, and took control of the property. None of JehovahÂ’s Witnesses in the hall were injured during the raid, and the building appears to be undamaged.

The Assembly Hall is the largest property that Russian authorities have seized from the Witnesses since the July 17, 2017, ruling of the Appellate Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Russian federation...... .. 

The Assembly Hall seats 1,500 and was used for large religious meetings and by local congregations after it was renovated in 2002.Attorneys for the Witnesses learned that the authorities had re-registered the Assembly Hall under the ownership of the Russian Federation. The property has since been transferred to a new owner, a neighboring health center, which has already posted a new sign on the gate................. 

 The Witnesses are pursuing every available appeal against the government’s actions, including applications to the European Court of Human Rights and complaints to the UN Human Rights Committee.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/by-region/russia/authorities-seize-assembly-hall-of-jehovahs-witnesses/

[Srecko Sostar]

5 hours ago, Bible Speaks said:

The property has since been transferred to a new owner, a neighboring health center, which has already posted a new sign on the gate................. 

That Russian act is more proper and morally justified than of WT when they sell their KH, for money of course too, to some "false religion" church or to some "worldly" business manager.  :)) For hospital or some other human, charity purpose is very good. Devil in russian government is not so "evil" as we think before.

[Space Merchant]

On 12/30/2017 at 3:52 PM, Srecko Sostar said:

That Russian act is more proper and morally justified than of WT when they sell their KH, for money of course too, to some "false religion" church or to some "worldly" business manager.  :)) For hospital or some other human, charity purpose is very good. Devil in russian government is not so "evil" as we think before.

There is a lot going in Russia that some do not realize, and has caused an uproar in the Russian community; I stated this before and what I say is true.

That being said, as March 2018 draws near, the FSB and Kremlin continue to play the same tactic with opposers, so called "Heroes" and religious minorities.

 

It is better to see things going on in Moscow by looking up news in Russia by the media that has not been blocked by the State Duma.