Jehovah's Witnesses face whole new trial in Moscow
HEARING OF CASE OF MOSCOW JEHOVISTS POSTPONED TO JANUARY
Mir religii, 29 November 2001
The judicial session on the case of the liquidation of the Moscow society of Jehovah's Witnesses was postponed to 10 January of next year, according to "Blagovest-info." The hearing will be held in the Golovin intermunicipal court of the capital.
According to the head of the Department for Public Relations of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses, Aleksei Nazarychev, presiding judge Vera Dubinskaia announced to attorneys for the "Witnesses" and representatives of the prosecutor's office of the northern administrative district that one of the people's assessors had been removed from the panel of judges. In such a case, the judge explained, the hearing is not only postponed to another day but the whole case begins de novo. Aleksei Nazarychev suggested that such a decision "possibly appears to be no accident." (tr. by PDS, posted 30 November 2001)