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JULY 27, 2017
RUSSIA
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Russia Moves to Declare the Bible “Extremist”
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Russia Moves to Declare the Bible “Extremist”
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On July 28, 2017, the Vyborg City Court will resume hearing the
case to declare “extremist” the New World Translation of the Holy
Scriptures,
published by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Russian language. The case had
been
adjourned since April 2016 after the judge ruled in favor of the
Leningrad-Finlyandskiy Transport Prosecutor’s claim to appoint an
“expert
study” to declare the New World Translation to be “extremist.”
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After numerous delays, the study was completed and was submitted to the
court on June 22, 2017. As the Witnesses expected, the study
supported declaring this Bible to be an “extremist” publication. The
study
claims that the New World Translation is “not a Bible.” However, this is
an attempt to circumvent the Law on Counteracting Extremist Activity,
which
prohibits declaring sacred texts, such as the Bible, to be extremist.
Additionally, the “expert study” bases its conclusion on theological
grounds.
Its authors object to the New World Translation’s rendering of the
Tetragrammaton * as “Jehovah”
and falsely claim that the text was altered to fit the Witnesses’
doctrine.
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