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Witness Underground Documentary

Witness Underground Topic Regarding: Documentary on the highly Controlling Group of Jehovah’s Witnesses & artistic outlets This article is about artistic former Jehovah’s Witnesses who created a heartfelt documentary expressing the acts of shunning in their own authentic way. Featuring in-depth interviews and extensive home video footage. Everyone in this film has endured through the […]

Jehovah’s Witnesses Mysteriously Delete Shunning Videos

Jehovah's Witnesses Delete Controversial Shunning Videos

Jehovah’s Witnesses Delete Controversial Shunning Videos As Jehovah’s Witnesses kick off their 2023 Regional Convention season, something very odd took place. Two videos intended for the Witnesses’ online version of the convention have been deleted from the streaming versions of the assembly program, with no explanation. But not before they were captured by avoidjw.org. The […]

Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Me

Rebekah Vardy - Jehovah's Witnesses and Me

Rebekah Vardy has made a documentary with UK TV’s Channel 4 about her experience with Jehovah’s Witnesses Rebekah Vardy, wife of England and Leicester City football star Jamie Vardy, has accused Jehovah’s Witnesses of having covered up the sexual abuse she suffered as a child and claims the church failed to protect other children from […]

Father of an Ex-Jehovah’s Witness

Father of an ex-Jehovah's Witness

Jan Frode Nilsen with his father in the background who is shunning him because he left Jehovah’s Witnesses Photo: Morten Marius Larsen “It can be compared to a feeling of sadness. But it is difficult to describe,” Per Ole Nilsen searches to find the words when he is asked about his son. The distance from Grimstad to […]

NORWAY: Court Revokes Jehovah’s Witnesses Request to Suspend Deregistration

Oslo Court Revokes Jehovah's Witnesses' Request to Suspend Deregistration

Map of Norway including Olso & Viken regions with Oslo District Court building in the background OSLO, NORWAY: On April 26, 2023, the Oslo District Court  revoked Jehovah’s Witnesses’ temporary injunction that they obtained on December 30, 2022. The temporary injunction was in place to suspend the government’s attempt to deregister Jehovah’s Witnesses as a […]

Nilsen’s Testimony in Full

Jan Frode Nilsen's testimony

Jan Frode Nilsen and the Oslo Courthouse in Norway Jan Frode Nilsen was questioned about the Jehovah’s Witnesses practice of shunning in an Oslo courthouse in Norway on Thursday morning, March 30, 2023. This is his full testimony. Transcript provided by Jan F. Nilsen in Norwegian. Translated by Jason Wynne. First published April 1, 2023 […]

Norway: Jan Frode Nilsen’s Testimony

Jan Frode Nilsen's testimony

Jan Frode Nilsen gives testimony before an Oslo Court regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses’ shunning of former members Anders Ryssdal, lawyer for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Norway, asks Jan Frode Nilsen some questions before an Oslo court on Thursday. The following is a paraphrasing of what was discussed based on notes written in Norwegian and provided to Mr. […]

The dark side of Jehovah’s Witnesses: A young woman recounts a harsh confession

The Dark Side of Jehovah's Witnesses

A young woman decided to break the silence, after the congregation publicly said that leaving was a “voluntary” action that carried no consequences. Originally published on March 23, 2023 in Spanish on La Tercera and written by Nicole Iporre. Commentary by Lester Somrah. “I am going to talk seriously about what happens within the Jehovah’s […]