内容摘要：The debate over Google’s fate also has pulled in opinions from Apple, mobile app developers, legal scholars and startups.

The debate over Google’s fate also has pulled in opinions from Apple, mobile app developers, legal scholars and startups.

Whenever she and her brother tried to question the church’s teachings, the others would not hear a word against it, she told Al Jazeera.“They would argue that we were ‘anti-Christ’ and that their church was the only sacred and holy way to heaven,” she said.

“Months later, I heard from my brother that they had sold the family’s property and were going to live inside the church after ditching earthly possessions.“We tried to reach them but were blocked by their leader. My husband broke the news to me one morning after a year that they had been found inside the forest and they were dead and buried.”After their deaths, they were buried in mass graves within the Shakahola Forest where the church was located. Upon discovery, following a tip from the local media, the police launched an operation to cordon off the area so they could exhume the bodies, test for DNA, and return the deceased to their relatives for proper burial.

They later arrested the church leader, McKenzie, and charged him with the murder of 191 people, child torture, and “terrorism”. He and several other co-accused remain in police custody, pending sentencing.Unlike Shakahola, the Migori church allowed its followers to work, eat and run businesses in the nearby Opapo and Rongo towns. But like Shakahola, it also kept them living apart from the rest of society, barred them from accessing school, marriage and medical care, and severely punished supposed transgressions, according to locals who heard and witnessed violent beatings and fights inside the compound.

In many societies, religious leaders are widely respected and trusted, and they often influence beliefs and actions in the private and public spheres, explained Fathima Azmiya Badurdee, a postdoctoral researcher in the faculty of Religion, Culture and Society at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

“People are in search of ‘hope’ in the daily issues they confront. Religious leaders are pivotal in this role in providing hope to sustain their futures … or even in life after death,” she explained.One of the biggest suppliers of Lego, which is readily sold on Russian online markets such as Ozon despite officially leaving the country, is a company registered in Poland, Bilax.

When approached by an Al Jazeera journalist posing as a customer, a company representative said his main business was to transfer goods from Western Europe to Eastern Europe and Central Asia.“We have continuous relationships with our clients in Russia and we are on the side of business in this conflict,” he said.

He connected Al Jazeera to a company based in Russia, Kids’ Times, where a sales manager claimed to have access to almost any item of Lego “through their partners based in Europe”.In a statement to Al Jazeera, Bilax said that the company “has never traded Lego” and provides only logistical services for third parties.