2017年4月，当俄罗斯将耶和华见证会（Jehovah’s Witnesses）列入该国的“极端组织”名单时，很少有人能想象到这一决定将引发的镇压的规模和持续时间。
“我从来没有想到，这件事不仅会直接影响到我，还会影响到社区里的任何人，”阿拉说。她的丈夫因与最高法院的裁决有关的指控被判处七年监禁。出于对自己和家人安全的考虑，她要求使用化名。
“当时决定的一切都是禁止法人实体的活动。未注册的团体，如集会，根本不应该受到影响。信仰本身并没有被禁止，”阿拉告诉《莫斯科时报》。
The Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian religious movement founded in the U.S. in the latter half of the 19th century which bases its beliefs solely on the text of the Bible.
In 2023, the Jehovah's Witnesses reported having more than 8.8 million active members worldwide.
该运动的成员相信世界末日即将来临，并以激进的和平主义信念和不参与政治生活而闻名。
While Jehovah's Witnesses believe in modern medicine, members of the faith refuse blood transfusion — an aspect of the faith exploited by the Justice Ministry in proving the allegedly “extremist” nature of the faith.
根据该组织保存的记录，自该法案生效以来的7.5年里，其中多达833人因宗教信仰受到迫害。
“It's a bit of a mystery for Jehovah's Witnesses why Russia has attacked us because we're known as peaceful people,” said Jarrod Lopes of the Public Information Office at the World Headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses in New York.
“他们为什么会考虑使用‘极端主义’这个词，这是一个谜……
“我们宁愿进监狱，也不愿参战，”他补充说。
But like other Jehovah's Witnesses, Lopes believes that the Russian Orthodox Church may have played a role in the marginalization and eventual ban of Jehovah's Witnesses — a theory also backed by some sociologists and human rights defenders.
Lopes stressed that the 100,000 Jehovah's Witnesses living across the country's 11 time zones were never a “real threat” to Russia's all-dominant Orthodox Church, saying “it's the optics that mattered.”
洛佩斯说：“看到我们在街上免费与人们分享圣经，他们很紧张。”“东正教和其他宗教有时会担心我们会让（俄罗斯的）每个人都皈依。但这并不是我们的目标。我们的目标只是分享圣经的信息。”
费利克斯·马哈马迪耶夫于2019年9月被判三年监禁，罪名是“组织被禁宗教协会的活动”，他是俄罗斯174名因信仰而入狱的信徒之一。
马哈马迪耶夫说：“与信徒聚会、唱赞美诗、祈祷和讲道成为起诉的理由。”他指出，针对他的证据可以追溯到2016年，当时该组织还没有被取缔。
Makhammadiyev于2018年首次被拘留，于2020年2月被转移到与哈萨克斯坦接壤的奥伦堡地区的第一惩教所服刑。
我们所有人一到监狱就被工作人员殴打，”Makhammadiyev在接受《莫斯科时报》采访时回忆道。“这完全是一种羞辱行为。”
Makhammadiyev在事故中多处肋骨骨折，并很快因气胸住院，气胸是一种危及生命的疾病，其特征是肺和胸壁之间的胸膜间隙异常聚集空气。
The decision of the five Jehovah's Witnesses to file official complaints over maltreatment prompted further hostility from both prison employees and fellow inmates who feared that a possible prison inspection could uproot their lives.
“过了一段时间，其他囚犯开始看清我们的真面目。我们与每个人友好沟通，尊重他们，做好事。随着时间的推移，许多囚犯……开始尊重我们，”Makhammadiyev说，他现在住在乌兹别克斯坦，在被剥夺俄罗斯公民身份后被驱逐出境。
阿拉说，耶和华见证会奉行的“爱上帝，爱邻居”原则，帮助她同样出生在国外的丈夫忍受了两年多的拘留。
阿拉说：“可以说，我丈夫在审前拘留中心被其他人洗清了极端主义的指控。
Alla recalled that one of her husband's former cellmates wrote him an emotional letter upon his release, in which he stated that even though he had heard about Jehovah's Witnesses before, “the stories about them seemed too good to be true.”
“然而，随着对我丈夫的了解，他改变了主意，”女人说。
“‘你就像圣经上写的那样。你诚实、正派、善良、有耐心。我很感激在我的生命中遇到了你。”现在，他时不时地给我在看守所的丈夫点些吃的，让他打起精神来。”
Though Alla maintained “having no hope” that her husband's seven-year sentence will be reduced, she, like other Jehovah's Witnesses who spoke with The Moscow Times, believes that persecution of her fellow believers in Russia will end as it did once before.
“Jehovah's Witnesses have always outlasted their persecution and we fully expect that to happen again,” said Lopes of the World Headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses in New York.
“这是怎么发生的，我们不知道。这种情况以前也以不同的方式发生过，但我们完全希望比这个政权更长久，”他补充说。
In 1951, the Soviet authorities deported nearly 10,000 Jehovah's Witnesses from the Baltic states, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus to Siberia during Operation Sever (North).
1996年，鲍里斯·叶利钦总统签署了一项法令，承认该组织成员是政治镇压的受害者。
“There are new people in power now, different people…I truly hope that they will take the time to understand our beliefs and see that Jehovah's Witnesses are kind-hearted and do good to society,” said Alla.
在我们中间，没有贿赂和腐败，我们在社会的各个领域都是可以信赖的。”
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