Russia deports foreign student because of religion

[JehovahsWitness]

Russia deports foreign student because of religion

ULAN-UDE, Russia—Daisuke Nomura, a student studying the Russian language at the Buryatia State University, will be deported back to Japan. According to local authorities, a foreign student in Russia is not permitted to profess the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Nomura, a 28-year-old from the city of Osaka, Japan, had only four months left to complete his studies and receive a diploma.

In August 2010, Sergey Pugachyov, the head of the local FSB department, demanded that the Federal Migration Service for the Republic of Buryatia take measures against Mr. Nomura, issuing his deportation if necessary. The Supreme Court of the Republic of Buryatia supported this action on three occasions. When Nomura’s visa was revoked, he was prevented from finishing his education, since he would not be allowed to attend school in Russia and practice his religion at the same time. Nomura appealed the decision in Russia’s courts over several months. However, on February 2, 2011, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Buryatia handed down a final ruling which was enforced immediately, leaving Nomura without legal recourse.

Mr. Daisuke Nomura expressed his bewilderment stating: “What good is my student visa if my religious beliefs result in my deportation? This ruling shows that Russia denies foreign students the right to freedom of religion, though this freedom is guaranteed by the Russian Constitution.�

Source: http://www.jw-media.org/rus/20110309.htm

[Furrowed Brow]

I poked around looking for a non JW source for this story. So far no indepedent media seem to have picked up on this story.

There seems to be some background to this single case. Here is a piece shown on Russia Today.

http://vodpod.com/watch/1911591-will-je ... -in-russia

It seems the Jehovah Witnesses trouble the Russian authorities and ...yes the authorities do seem to have it in for them,

[JehovahsWitness]

So far no indepedent media seem to have picked up on this story.

Few people are interested in the plight of Jehovah's Witnesses, in Russia or any other country; its unsurprising that the major media companies are uninterested.


RUSSIA
http://www.religiousliberty.tv/jehovah% ... union.html
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1395
http://www.cesnur.org/2004/jw_moscow.htm
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/op ... 71746.html

[Choir Loft]

Few people are interested in the plight of Jehovah's Witnesses, in Russia or any other country; its unsurprising that the major media companies are uninterested.

Russia is not especially known for it's religious or philosophical tolerance.
If you push them, they push back.

The international problem does not affect JWs only, but every other religion except Islam.

Some say there is an invisible spiritual power behind it all - one of wicked intent and purpose. The persecution strikes the Jew first, then everybody else. It is a pattern that repeats often.

[asp59]

Russia deports foreign student because of religion

ULAN-UDE, Russia—Daisuke Nomura, a student studying the Russian language at the Buryatia State University, will be deported back to Japan. According to local authorities, a foreign student in Russia is not permitted to profess the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Nomura, a 28-year-old from the city of Osaka, Japan, had only four months left to complete his studies and receive a diploma.

In August 2010, Sergey Pugachyov, the head of the local FSB department, demanded that the Federal Migration Service for the Republic of Buryatia take measures against Mr. Nomura, issuing his deportation if necessary. The Supreme Court of the Republic of Buryatia supported this action on three occasions. When Nomura’s visa was revoked, he was prevented from finishing his education, since he would not be allowed to attend school in Russia and practice his religion at the same time. Nomura appealed the decision in Russia’s courts over several months. However, on February 2, 2011, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Buryatia handed down a final ruling which was enforced immediately, leaving Nomura without legal recourse.

Mr. Daisuke Nomura expressed his bewilderment stating: “What good is my student visa if my religious beliefs result in my deportation? This ruling shows that Russia denies foreign students the right to freedom of religion, though this freedom is guaranteed by the Russian Constitution.�

Source: http://www.jw-media.org/rus/20110309.htm

john 15-18 If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before it hated YOU. 19 If YOU were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because YOU are no part of the world, but I have chosen YOU out of the world, on this account the world hates YOU. 20 Bear in mind the word I said to YOU, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute YOU also; if they have observed my word, they will observe YOURS also

: “The Devil will keep on throwing some of you into prison that you may be fully put to the test.� (Revelation 2:10)
Shows that satan is behind persecuting Christians today.