{"id":15368,"date":"2017-02-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/02\/02\/russian-court-clears-yoga-teacher-of-illegal-missionary-activity\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:00:00","slug":"russian-court-clears-yoga-teacher-of-illegal-missionary-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/02\/02\/russian-court-clears-yoga-teacher-of-illegal-missionary-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Court Clears Yoga Teacher of Illegal Missionary Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russia-yoga-instructor-court-missionary-activity\/28241918.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSSIA, January 18, 2017 (Radio Free Europe): A Russian computer programmer who was accused of conducting illegal missionary work after giving a lecture on yoga has been cleared of the charges by a court in St. Petersburg. <\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old Dmitry Ugay was detained by Russian police in October while giving a talk on the philosophical origins of yoga after police received a complaint accusing him of proselytizing for a sect. He was charged with illegal missionary activity &#8212; an administrative offense under counterterrorism legislation signed by President Vladimir Putin in the summer of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation placed restrictions on missionary activity and introduced administrative fines of up to 50,000 rubles ($840) for people who proselytize outside of venues registered to recognized religions. Critics said the case against Ugay showed that the legislation is loosely-worded and open to abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source RUSSIA, January 18, 2017 (Radio Free Europe): A Russian computer programmer who was accused of conducting illegal missionary work,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}