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  • Description:  http//www.watchtower.org/e/20020122/article_01.htm - 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  jehovah  witness  
  • Added:  01-26-12  Views:  (3256)
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