Source: Forum 18, July 5, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On June 16, Dzhankoi District Court in Russian-occupied Crimea rejected Emir Medzhitov\u2019s appeal against a fine of three weeks\u2019 average local wages for leading Friday prayers in a mosque. His public defender Aider Suleimanov insisted that the prosecution had not proved that Medzhitov had conducted the \u201cmissionary activity\u201d for which he was punished. \u201cIt turns out that Emir was punished simply for conducting communal prayers,\u201d Suleimanov complained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dzhankoi District Prosecutor\u2019s Office official Natalya Tishchenko\u2014who led the case in court\u2014put the phone down when Forum 18 asked why the Prosecutor\u2019s Office had opened a case against Medzhitov at the instigation of Russia\u2019s FSB security service and why he had been prosecuted and punished for exercising freedom of religion or belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full article<\/a> describes cases affecting both Muslims and Christians persecuted under the Russian law against missionary activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that the political status of Crimea is disputed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elsewhere, in historically tolerant Switzerland, evangelical churches are appealing a ruling against conducting baptisms on Lake Geneva\u2019s public beaches<\/a> (Evangelical Focus).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Forum 18, July 5, 2022 On June 16, Dzhankoi District Court in Russian-occupied Crimea rejected Emir Medzhitov\u2019s appeal against a fine of three weeks\u2019 average local wages for leading Friday prayers in a mosque. His public defender Aider Suleimanov insisted that the prosecution had not proved that Medzhitov had conducted the \u201cmissionary activity\u201d for … Continue reading Crimea: Muslims and Christians Prosecuted Under Russian Anti-Missionary Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11226,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions\/11226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}