The European court of human rights (ECtHR) accepted for consideration the complaint of several religious organizations that were previously banned in Russia for extremist or terrorist activities. It follows from the materials placed on the court’s website.
Only the ECHR communicated eight complaints filed against Russia. Now the country-the defendant shall within the prescribed period submit to the court its position.
Appeals were filed in the period from 2011 to 2017, all applicants are appealing the violation of article 9 of the European Convention on freedom of conscience.
In particular, the ECHR will consider the complaint of the adherents of the movement “AUM Shinrikyo” to enable their organizations to the list of terrorist and 12 adherents of the “Church of Scientology” and the eight associated with Scientology organizations from different cities of Russia who are dissatisfied with prosecution for distributing religious literature and denial of registration of legal entities.
In addition, the court received complaints from five of the adherents of the movement “Tablighi Jamaat”, recognized as extremist in 2009, nine of the followers of the teachings of said Nursi (“nurdzhular”), which preaches the idea of creating a United Islamic Caliphate and is banned in Russia since 2008, as well as from the inhabitant of Kazan, to whom the office of public Prosecutor has forbidden to establish a cell is considered a radical Sunni organization.
In addition, the ECtHR will consider complaints related to the distribution of religious literature — Islamic works, as well as brochures of the Chinese movement Falun Gong.
Just register organizations, banned in Russia for extremist activity, currently consists of 62 enterprises in the register of terrorist organizations — 27.