{"id":22026,"date":"2017-01-13T09:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=22026"},"modified":"2017-01-13T09:10:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:10:58","slug":"russian-yoga-fans-alarmed-at-arrest-of-teacher-under-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/russian-yoga-fans-alarmed-at-arrest-of-teacher-under-new-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Yoga Fans Alarmed at Arrest of Teacher Under New Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/40bca00db1dd825a873109499b11fe1ecff66d2b\/0_102_4120_2471\/master\/4120.jpg?w=620&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=21193b6f87669dad2f5b8f2090a8a9cb\" width=\"333\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoga teacher Dmitry Ugai appears in court over charges he violated a new law banning missionary activity. Photograph: Peter Kovalev\/TASS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>LTRP Note:<\/strong> Posted for informational and research purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Guardian (UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A yoga teacher in Russia has been charged with illegal missionary activity under a controversial new law designed to fight terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Computer programmer Dmitry Ugay was detained by police in St Petersburg in October while giving a talk at a festival about the philosophy behind yoga.<\/p>\n<p>Ugay says he was stopped 40 minutes into his discussion, put into a car and taken to a police station without being informed of his apparent offence.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old now faces a fine for allegedly conducting illegal missionary activity, an administrative offence under the new Yarovaya law, a package of legal amendments intended to fight terrorism that is named after its author, the MP Irina Yarovaya.<\/p>\n<p>Ugay\u2019s court hearing in St Petersburg has been adjourned until next week, the state legal news agency Rapsi reported. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jan\/12\/russian-yoga-fans-alarmed-at-arrest-of-teacher-under-new-law\">Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTRP Note: Posted for informational&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,1911,46,385],"tags":[21,2929,2920,173,830],"class_list":["post-22026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga","category-remembering-communism","category-politics","category-freedom-signs-of-the-times","tag-new-age","tag-yoga","tag-politics","tag-freedom","tag-russia","wpcat-96-id","wpcat-1911-id","wpcat-46-id","wpcat-385-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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