Georgia: Jehovah's Witnesses apply to the European Court

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Georgia: Jehovah's Witnesses apply to the European Court


For Immediate Release   
June 30, 2001

Jehovah's Witnesses file with European Court

STRASBOURG, FRANCE

-After almost two years of inaction and lack of prosecution on the
part of the Georgia's Prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal
Affairs, Jehovah's Witnesses filed an application with the European
Court of Human Rights yesterday.

The application asks the Court to rule that the government of Georgia
must prosecute perpetrators of the brutal October 17, 1999 attack on
the Gldani congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses by defrocked Orthodox
priest Vasili Mkalavishvili and his followers.

More than 70 similar attacks have been carried out against Jehovah's
Witnesses since the Gldani mobbing, the most recent occurring on June
17, 2001.

Georgia contact: 
Telephone: +995 32 76 23 59  
Facsimile: +995 32 76 95 98
English-speaking. 
Paul Gillies,  mobile telephone:  + 44 7775 833880
Video footage available to the media upon request
http://www.jw-georgia.org

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