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  • Description:  Politician Guram Sharadze filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the
    legal entities of Jehovahs Witnesses. His suit was dismissed on
    February 29, 2000. However, Sharadze appealed and won. Jehovahs
    Witnesses, in turn, appealed to the Supreme Court. On February 22,
    2001, the Supreme Court decided against the Witnesses, basically on
    legal technicalities. The Supreme Court reasoned that the
    Constitution specifies that religions are to be registered under
    public law according to an as yet nonexistent law detailing the
    registration of religious associations. The court concluded that in
    the absence of this law, Jehovahs Witnesses could not be registered
    in any alternative form. However, some 15 other associations
    supporting religious activity are legally registered in
    Georgia.

    In reaction to the Supreme Courts decision, Georgias
    Justice Minister, Mikheil Saakashvili, said in a television
    interview From a legal standpoint, the decision is very dubious. I
    dont think its the most successful page in the history of the
    Supreme Court. Zurab Adeishvili, the acting chairman of Georgias
    parliamentary legal committee, told Keston News Service that he was
    very concerned about the ruling because it encourages extremist
    forces in our [Georgian Orthodox] Church to suppress religious
    minority groups. Sadly, Adeishvilis concerns proved justified. A few
    days after the ruling, the violence against Jehovahs Witnesses
    resumed. In the year 2001, Witnesses were assaulted by mobs, police,
    and Orthodox priests on February 27, March 5, March 6, March 27,
    April 1, April 7, April 29, April 30, May 7, May 20, June 8, June
    17, July 11, August 12, September 28, and September 30. And the list
    goes on and on.

    In the midst of this new wave of persecution, the
    Supreme Court took the unusual step of clarifying its decision
    publicly, stating Unfortunately, the public has wrongly interpreted
    the annulment by the Supreme Court of the registration of the Union
    of Jehovahs Witnesses . . . When the court registration of
    defendants, as a legal entity of private law, was annulled, their
    right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion was neither
    directly nor indirectly violated or restricted. Their freedom to
    change their belief, either alone or jointly with others, either
    publicly or in private, was not restricted. . . . The Court decision
    has not restricted the defendants right to receive and distribute
    their ideas and information. It did not prohibit their right to have
    peaceful meetings.
  • Tags:  Georgia  
  • Added:  01-26-12  Views:  (2662)
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