Dear President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin I want to first off express my deepest appreciation for the laws of the Russian government for guaranteeing freedom of religion to all citizens. I am writing this letter to bring to your attention recent events of labeling Jehovah’s Witnesses as extremists. As one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, I know firsthand that this peaceful organization is in no way an extremists religious group, and should therefore not be labeled as such. On March 15, 2017, the Ministry of Justice in Russia took action to declare Jehovah’s Witnesses as “extremists”. This would lead to the seizing of many, if not all, of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ property, thus impeding the Witnesses from practicing their religion freely. All
