Authoritarians worldwide define religions they don’t like as extremist

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Authoritarians worldwide define religions they don’t like as extremist

 

https://www.economist.com/erasmus/2019/04/05/authoritarians-worldwide-define-religions-they-dont-like-as-extremist

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https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/Legislation Factsheet - Extremism.pdf

 

The briefing paper mentions Russia and Jehovah's Witnesses

 

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In Russia, any court may add texts to the Federal List of Extremist Materials. As of January 2019, there were over 4,000 items on this list, including many religious texts with no apparent connections to militancy. The list includes the translation of the Bible used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which in 2017 was the first centralized religious organization to be banned as an extremist organization in the country