Sweden: Abuse, filter bubbles and carefully selected truths
Jenny Küttim, acclaimed journalist & head of investigations at SVT, publishes “Truth Bearers”, a review of Jehovah’s Witnesses & the mechanisms of closed groups.Photo: Adam Syundman/SvD/TT What does it do to a person to realize that they grew up being lied to? To understand that you have been manipulated, teased about certain things while other […]
SWEDEN: New grant requirements – denominations must apply
Those who represent organizations must live up to the requirements we have, says Anders Ygeman (S), Minister of Integration and Migration. Photo: Paul Wennerholm / TT, Gorm Kallestad / TT Sweden – Today, the government presented proposals for new legislation, with new democratic conditions for stronger control over state support for civil society and religious […]
Jenny Küttim was brainwashed by Jehovah’s Witnesses – She managed to leave the sect
At just six years old, Jenny Küttim was so radicalized in Jehovah’s Witnesses that she knocked on doors to recruit new members. After being hospitalized, her path out of the sect began in her early teens – and now the digging journalist is releasing a book about her upbringing and the secrets that Jehovah’s Witnesses […]
SWEDEN: The High Court has decided on Jehovah’s films
The Svea Court of Appeals upholds the district court’s ruling against a church leader, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who was convicted of showing films not reviewed by the State Media Council for Children at the Stockholm International Fair 2018. Originally published on svt Nyheter on Friday 14 February 2020 The church leader was convicted in […]