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Amarian: Being `oppressed' advantageous to Jehovah's Witnesses
Friday,
May 10
Being `oppressed' is quite advantageous to Jehovah's Witnesses in
Armenia, Alexander Amarian, Head of the Center for Aid and
Rehabilitation of Victims of Destructive Cults, said at a press
conference today.
We would remind you that Jehovah's Witnesses sect filed a lawsuit to
the European Court of Human Rights over the illegal arrests of sect
members by Armenian law enforcers. ECHR ruled that Armenia should
compensate the plaintiffs for the non-material damage within 3 months
after the ruling took effect (until May 27, 2013).
A. Amarian said that in 2005, 25 members of the sect chose to do
alternative service in various medical institutions, but the following
day the members of the sect told the appropriate bodies that they
decided to refuse alternative service, saying that those institutions
are also under the jurisdiction of the army and for that reason doing
service in such institutions contradicted their religious beliefs,
after which they left their duty stations without permission.
According to Amarian, ECHR examined the issue of human rights and
inviolability of person, not the issue of the sect.
The lawsuit to ECHR was filed by 17 members of Jehovah's Witnesses on
31 March 2006.
TODAY, 14:55
Aysor.am
Friday,
May 10
Being `oppressed' is quite advantageous to Jehovah's Witnesses in
Armenia, Alexander Amarian, Head of the Center for Aid and
Rehabilitation of Victims of Destructive Cults, said at a press
conference today.
We would remind you that Jehovah's Witnesses sect filed a lawsuit to
the European Court of Human Rights over the illegal arrests of sect
members by Armenian law enforcers. ECHR ruled that Armenia should
compensate the plaintiffs for the non-material damage within 3 months
after the ruling took effect (until May 27, 2013).
A. Amarian said that in 2005, 25 members of the sect chose to do
alternative service in various medical institutions, but the following
day the members of the sect told the appropriate bodies that they
decided to refuse alternative service, saying that those institutions
are also under the jurisdiction of the army and for that reason doing
service in such institutions contradicted their religious beliefs,
after which they left their duty stations without permission.
According to Amarian, ECHR examined the issue of human rights and
inviolability of person, not the issue of the sect.
The lawsuit to ECHR was filed by 17 members of Jehovah's Witnesses on
31 March 2006.
TODAY, 14:55
Aysor.am