{"id":1256,"date":"2011-12-18T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T09:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/18\/bhagvad-gita-faces-extremist-branding-legal\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:27","slug":"bhagvad-gita-faces-extremist-branding-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/18\/bhagvad-gita-faces-extremist-branding-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bhagvad Gita’ faces ‘extremist’ branding, legal ban in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Scoop.it<\/a> – Rights & Liberties<\/a>
MOSCOW: Bhagvad Gita, one of the most sacred Hindu religious texts, is facing a legal ban and the prospect of being branded as “an extremist” literature across Russia, with a court in Siberia’s Tomsk city all set to deliver its final verdict on Monday in a case filed by state prosecutors. \u00a0
Via articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Scoop.it – Rights & LibertiesMOSCOW: Bhagvad Gita, one of the most sacred Hindu religious texts, is facing a legal ban and the prospect of being branded as “an extremist” literature across Russia, with a court in Siberia’s Tomsk city … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1125,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/01\/former-guantanamo-prisoner-who-alleged-us-torture\/","url_meta":{"origin":1256,"position":0},"title":"Former Guant\u00e1namo Prisoner Who Alleged US Torture, Drugging, Sentenced by Algerian Authorities | Truthout","author":"aslam","date":"February 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesThe UK action charity Reprieve, whose attorneys represent over a dozen prisoners at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, reports that former Guant\u00e1namo prisoner, Algerian citizen Abdul Aziz Naji, has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria. 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