Novosibirsk Regional Court brands Allya-Ayat extremist
NOVOSIBIRSK. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Novosibirsk Regional Court has branded extremist the Allya-Ayat religious organization, senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Natalia Markasova told Interfax on Wednesday.
"The Novosibirsk Regional Court has recognized the Allya-Ayat religious organization as extremist by request of the Novosibirsk regional prosecutor," she said.
The Novosibirsk regional police said Allya-Ayat had been operating in the region since the early 2000s. The organization opened 20 centers on the rented premises and claimed it could cure people from all kinds of diseases with special texts and the Zvezda Vselennoy (Star of the Universe) magazine applied to painful spots.
The organization was outlawed in Kazakhstan in 2008 but its branches continued to operate in Siberia.
Pensioners and heavily sick persons frequently become Allya-Ayat followers.
