BELGIUM: Jehovah’s Witnesses fined 96,000 euros for inciting hate
The non-profit organization behind the Jehovah’s Witnesses is guilty of inciting discrimination and hatred or violence against ex-members who have left the community. The organization will be fined 96,000 euros, the Ghent criminal court ruled on Tuesday. Originally published on Nieuwsblad on March 16, 2021 A former member of Jehovah’s Witnesses went to the Ghent […]
ARGENTINA: Jehovah’s Witnesses remain silent in a child sexual abuse trial
Elders of a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Santa Elena opted for silence and secrecy in a trial that followed Matías Vargas and Luciano Vito Panza, two members of that religious congregation, accused of aggravated sexual abuse and corruption of minors to the detriment of two young people. Originally published by EntreRíosYA on March 11, […]
SPAIN: Supreme Court says religions cannot keep all personal data of members who leave
Before a request for total deletion of data, a proportional judgment must be made against the right of conservation. Article previously published in Spanish on Confilegal by Irene Casanueva on March 13, 2021 A religious group has the right to keep personal data of a person who leaves the religion when it is necessary for […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Right to Vote Prohibited
Jehovah’s Witnesses deny their members the right to vote in democratic election. The leaders demand that all Jehovah’s Witnesses remain neutral. Members who exercise their democratic right to vote are expelled and shunned. Freedom of religion is a fundamental right in a democratic society. We have the right to believe what we want. We have […]
BRAZIL: Sexual abuse, Heresy & Social Control in Jehovah’s Witnesses
Original published on GospelPrime on March 3, 2021 by Michael Caceres “It was like a house of cards that has collapsed,” says a former cult elder. For 40 years of his life, António Madaleno, born in Portugal, was part of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which he defines as a “cult”. He was just one year old when […]
Netherlands: Sander Huls Leaves Jehovah’s Witnesses and Shares His Experience
Originally published on NPO Radio 1 on March 3, 2021 They don’t vote, don’t celebrate birthdays, refuse blood transfusions, but are best known for their ‘field service’; the foot in the door. The Netherlands has about 30,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses. Sander Huls was one of them, but left the religious group about 7 years ago. Sander shares his experiences on […]
Choose Your Apps Wisely – Controlling Mobile App Choices
In April 2020, Watch Tower performed a controlled release of a video entitled, “Choose Your Apps Wisely”. It was shown at congregation meetings around the world. It has not been published on jw.org for public viewing. The video is a manipulative attempt to control members mobile app choices. The 150 second video begins by asking […]
Mikael Torfason: A Child Survivor of Watch Tower’s Blood Policy
Mikael Torfason may not be a name that you are familiar with. Yet, this Icelander novelist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and director is well-known in Iceland. He is also a former Jehovah’s Witness. I discovered him quite by chance, after watching an Icelandic TV show on Netflix entitled, The Valhalla Murders. If you know nothing about […]
Awake! Magazine: A Quiet Death to a False Hope
Has the Awake! magazine been killed and burried in a shallow grave of false hope? Jehovah’s Witnesses have not published an Awake! magazine since March 2022. There has been no announcement from the World Headquarters in New York that the publication has ceased production. Yet, no edition has yet been released since March 2023. The […]