DISCUSS COURT CASE HERE JW.org - Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia

[Nzer133]

11:40pm here in New Zealand. Looking forward to this though I'll be drifting to sleep. Hope everything works well for the brothers, but even if not, what a show of loyal love and endurance to Jehovah. 

[Guri]

1 minute ago, Gregexplore said:

Bus full of police? Hmmm 

Exactly. Why do they need the bus full of police? Suspicious...

[Bluebell]

2 minutes ago, Gregexplore said:

Bus full of police? Hmmm 

remember...we are extremists....

[countrykaren]

3 minutes ago, Gregexplore said:

Bus full of police? Hmmm 

The word of God is sharper than a two edge sword so there would be some police worried

[Guri]

1 minute ago, Samira said:

remember...we are extremists....

Yeaaa...  They need to protect Moscow from extremists...

[campanula]

3 minutes ago, Gregexplore said:

Bus full of police? Hmmm 

They do not like it when more than 3 people gethering together on the street. In some cases they call it "protests action".

[New World Explorer]

3 minutes ago, Zacchaeus The Short said:

Exactly. Why do they need the bus full of police? Suspicious...

I have bad feeling... hopefully what I imagine is wrong ... I hope hmmm

[GeordieGirl]

45 mins in and no report yet.  Keep those prayers going, brothers. 

[countrykaren]

1 minute ago, GeordieGirl said:

45 mins in and no report yet.  Keep those prayers going, brothers. 

Definitely it is Jehovah's fight against the government it will be made known soon 

[dove]

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://www.jw-russia.org/&prev=search

[JJMS]

I had some negatives feeling by hearing that there are buses full of polices. 

[New World Explorer]

Just now, JJMS said:

I had some negatives feeling by hearing that there are buses full of polices. 

Not only you brother... not only you... 

[JJMS]

because it seems like they already had took their decision.

[Bluebell]

maybe the expect unrest after announcing the verdict......

[campanula]

Have you seen nine pictures at yesterday's link?

[Guri]

1 minute ago, Samira said:

maybe the expect unrest after announcing the verdict......

You are right. If (and when) they announce the negative verdict, they might even arrest brothers. Who knows? Therefore They probably prefer to be mobilized.

[BibleSteve]

Delay at the moment

[GeordieGirl]

Regarding the police presence, it may also be because most people in this position would cause a riot and that is what they are expecting.  It will come as a big shock to them that the brothers will quietly retreat. That will leave questions in their minds.

 

Edited April 6, 2017 by GeordieGirl

[Guri]

BibleSteve

 

Anton Chivchalov does not attend the court hearing.

[BibleSteve]

Ok but he just posted this picture

 

Nice to see all their big beaming smiles despite the circumstances

 

Edited April 6, 2017 by BibleSteve
adding text

[UpstateKate]

I wonder if these are the brothers and sisters that will be going on the stand? 

 

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Lawyers apply for interrogation of individual citizens, followers of the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses, who can testify about what measures were taken by Jehovah's Witnesses to prevent extremist activity.

 

 

 

[Guri]

1 minute ago, GeordieGirl said:

Regarding the police presence, it may also be because most people in this position would cause a riot and that is what they are expecting.  It will come as a big shock to them that the brothers will quietly retreat. That will leave questions in their minds.

 

 

GeordieGirl

 

The Russian Police knows JW very well. They know brothers would not cause any riot. The police might think the other citizens could cause potential harm to brothers after the verdict is announce. So it might be for the protection of brothers OR the police has other (not good) plans.

[Friends just call me Ross]

5 minutes ago, campanula said:

Have you seen nine pictures at yesterday's link?

The 32 of us here are joined by these people, outside of the courthouse:

 

May Jehovah fortify us all to accept whatever the outcome is, and move forward.

[Dages]

It's on !

[Guri]

2:30 pm	The hearing began with the defendants' petition to suspend the hearing due to the fact that private complaints were filed against the court's yesterday's refusals to satisfy most of the 17 applications submitted. The hearing must be suspended pending decisions on these complaints.
14:33	The Ministry of Justice objects to the suspension of the hearings. The court is removed to the advisory room.
14:37	The court denies the motion to suspend the hearing. Omelchenko's lawyer solicits the inclusion of materials that may indicate political motives for the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses. These are the documents of foreign organizations, such as the UN, OSCE, official statements of human rights organizations, as well as archival documents.
14:40	The court decided to grant the application for the attachment of these materials. The court reports the essence of the matter and gives the floor to the Ministry of Justice.
14:45	The representative of the Ministry of Justice Borisov begins to expound the arguments that justify the necessity of banning all organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. She lists the decisions of the courts against the local religious organizations (MPOs) of Jehovah's Witnesses.