This Saturday I had the opportunity to be interviewed by an important Spanish radio leader: Isabel Gemio.
You can hear it at: Link
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Onda Cero: Te doy mi palabra
by sp74bb inthis saturday i had the opportunity to be interviewed by an important spanish radio leader: isabel gemio.. you can hear it at: link.
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PRESS RELEASE: This is not over, on the contrary. I do not retract.
by sp74bb ini appreciate all the expressions of interest and solidarity.
it has been a very intense week.
i started with the help of many of you, a particular war for my rights as a european citizen.. we have achieved an important space and advertising with a single complaint, which is a great success that i share with you all.. the press has not only spoken about a single complaint, but they gave a full coverage on asocial behavior of jehovah's witnesses and the last, a very hard editorial from the newspaper el periodico director (link).
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I appreciate all the expressions of interest and solidarity. It has been a very intense week. I started with the help of many of you, a particular war for my rights as a European citizen.
We have achieved an important space and advertising with a single complaint, which is a great success that I share with you all.
The press has not only spoken about a single complaint, but they gave a full coverage on asocial behavior of Jehovah's Witnesses and the last, a very hard Editorial from the newspaper El Periodico director (Link). I can only thank the professionalism and commitment of El Periodico de Catalunya and his team.
The news are a turbulent river, I will continue to have a presence in other European newspapers and this weekend an interview at a major radio channel in Spain. "Te doy mi palabra" by an important Spanish journalist, Isabel Gemio. The radio interview will include the Statement of the official spokesman of Jehovah's Witnesses in Spain and my live testimony. This will be tomorrow Saturday from 9 to 10 AM Spain local time. You can hear it at: Radio Web link
Thank you for your solidarity and support, I do not want to destroy a belief. I want an American cult not do more harm to individuals: not impose risky behavior, asocial rules, destroy families, generate emotional conflicts and respect all freedoms, and do not only use the individuals for their economic and business benefits, disguised under a supposed cult.
This is not over here, much less. On the contrary ... I do not want to buy my silence, I do not want the media that talked about my situation received pressures. I want to fight for you. I'M NOT RETRACTING AND WILL NOT RETRACT. What the Periodico newspaper explains is so true that I still suffer in it everyday.
I will denounce to the press, the security forces and to justice that there are cases of abuse like mine, that there are confidential files on these abuses in the congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses, who continue to exclude in an asocial way its former members. I shall continue. WE MUST DENOUCE ... Let no one else suffer like we suffered.
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Announcement from SPAIN: On Monday, the 26th online in the a.m. in the online edition of www.elperiodico.es...
by AndersonsInfo inannouncement from spain:.
on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.
please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.
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Please have a look in the coming separate post. There will be NO RETRACTION !!!
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Announcement from SPAIN: On Monday, the 26th online in the a.m. in the online edition of www.elperiodico.es...
by AndersonsInfo inannouncement from spain:.
on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.
please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.
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Thanks for sharing @darkspilver :)
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Editorial El Periodico, "The dark practices within Jehovah's Witnesses"
by sp74bb inenric hernàndez (@enric_hernandez), director of el periódico (www.periodico.es) has written an editorial this morning.
very interesting !!.
link to editorial in spanish.
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Hello,
Enric Hernàndez (@Enric_Hernandez), director of El Periódico (www.periodico.es) has written an Editorial this morning. Very interesting !!
Translation :
Jehovah's Witnesses are a religious entity meeting the requirements set by the state, it is registered since 1970 and has the legal recognition of "deeply rooted", granted by the Advisory Commission on Religious Freedom, for ten years now. We can not speak strictly because of sectarian problem in relation to their situation, but the fact is that we can reasonably doubt from certain practices. One of the most notorious is the ban of blood transfusions, a detail which is always questionable and even more so when it comes to minors.
Another, perhaps less known, is the existence of parallel state courts, a domestic judicial committees that oversee the maintenance of moral norms governing this theocratic organization. The incidence of this type of -opaque, secret and inquisitional- in people who suffer implies for them a personal humiliation that even reaches the family rootlessness judgments.
Some recent cases of corruption and allegations of abuse; discipline and centralized religious-business structure in a multinational based in New York; and examples such as this publishing newspaper (El Periodico) referring to an almost sectarian, insistent, archaic and with touches of homophobia pressure, should alert us against any violation of the freedom of citizens, believers or not.
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Call for Judicial Hearing by signed letter
by sp74bb ini'm quite surprised about the new approach of some local congregation brothers respect about my fade.... funny, ilegal and very dangerous in view of the different laws regarding personal data and minorities in spain and in the eu.... i already organized a press meeting with main newspapers in spain.
many has shown interest in this situation.
the fact of that a parallel judicial system do exist is amazing them.
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Since my fade 5 years ago I had no connection with JW nor I attended any meeting.
The fact to be active in Spanish forums helping JW to leave the Org is really upsetting some members in my country.
In Spain as in other countries, there is only room for ONE judicial system. The same that said the Finnish Ministry of Justice years ago.
Many exJW in Finland ask for protection and the goverment ask the official statement. Betel in Finland confirmed no Judicial hearings were done, not any more (sic)
I have the right to claim my protection and my liberty of freedom. The more as I was abused by a MS once I was teenager !
I have the right to access and cancel the information relevant to my person in the congregation and at Bethel !
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Jehovah Witnesses want to judge me for adultery. Covert sexual abuses. Article in Spanish Newspaper.
by sp74bb inhello friends,.
after receiving a letter at my home calling me for a "judicial audience" after having quit 5 years ago the jw, i decided to go to the police and talk about the policy within jw.org: social abuse, judicial threats and in my case sexual abuses.. a national newspaper in spain www.elperiodico.es has decided to give visibility to this situation.
please find the first link:.
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Thank you very much for your help and support.
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New interviews in Spanish newspaper
by sp74bb intomorrow evening 2 additional interviews will be appearing on www.elperiodico.es newspaper.
2 new victims speaks out ...
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Tomorrow evening 2 additional interviews will be appearing on www.elperiodico.es newspaper. 2 new victims speaks out ..
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Announcement from SPAIN: On Monday, the 26th online in the a.m. in the online edition of www.elperiodico.es...
by AndersonsInfo inannouncement from spain:.
on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.
please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.
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Exact. Both articles are correct.
Sadly, but I had to protect my right for honor and freedom. I'm trying to write now separate threads about the these ones.
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Jehovah Witnesses want to judge me for adultery. Covert sexual abuses. Article in Spanish Newspaper.
by sp74bb inhello friends,.
after receiving a letter at my home calling me for a "judicial audience" after having quit 5 years ago the jw, i decided to go to the police and talk about the policy within jw.org: social abuse, judicial threats and in my case sexual abuses.. a national newspaper in spain www.elperiodico.es has decided to give visibility to this situation.
please find the first link:.
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sp74bb
Hello friends,
After receiving a letter at my home calling me for a "judicial audience" after having quit 5 years ago the JW, I decided to go to the police and talk about the policy within JW.org: social abuse, judicial threats and in my case sexual abuses.
A national newspaper in Spain www.elperiodico.es has decided to give visibility to this situation.
Please find the first link:
We set up an email (only for Spanish speaking audience) to help anybody who was in the same situation: [email protected]. Any information or experience will be shared with this newspaper in order to give more visibility
Spanish: http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/sociedad/los-testigos-jehova-quieren-juzgar-por-adulterio-5416455
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Translation by Google Translator:
"Jehovah's Witnesses want to judge me for adultery"
A former member of the religious organization denounces harassment and summon him to an internal trial
Miguel Garcia suspected that the confession pursues him in the background because he has a homosexual relationship
FERRAN NADEU
Miguel García explains his complaint against Jehovah's Witnesses.
"We get in touch with you (...) because he has had sex outside marriage. For this reason we quote him for a court hearing, it is our theocratic responsibility. " With these words begins the letter that the French Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cardedeu sent this man of 43 years ceased to be a member of this community "about five years".
This document, which confirms the existence of parallel trialsdevotees of confession is "strange , " said Miguel Garcia, for the book "Shepherd the Flock '-of exclusively for elders who lead the congregaciones- detailing how to form a "judicial committee" and clarifies that it must "cited the defendant orally". It adds that if "a journalist or a lawyer" question from these lawsuits should not "provide any information or confirm their existence."
THE CONGREGATION IS deny
This newspaper has contacted one of the three elders who have cited Miguel Garcia for trial on Monday 26 September. As dictated by the book entry, the old man has denied most. "First news," he responded.After learning that appear with your name signing the letter of invitation, he acknowledged that the trial did exist. This session was to be held at the Kingdom Hall of Cardedeu His local- because it is a "theocratic framework" that "instills greater respect in the present."
"They're trying to rideme a parallel court, as a court of honor, something totally illegal"
"Failure" of the three elders, according to the text, has for the accused "lasting and large - scale consequences." Offenses included in such serious Criminal Code as murder,rape and sexual abuse of minors or made even punishable as smoking or getting drunk deserve the celebration of these judgments.
Miguel Garcia was separated from his wife to leave confession and four years later formally divorced. To "liberate" his wife, he wrote a letter in which he explained that he had a new relationship. Thus, she could get the "biblical divorce" and remarrying. Garcia suspected that currently have a homosexual relationship has motivated the background is called court hearing for adultery. It is, says Garcia, a "homophobic" community, and as proof refers to a video of domestic production .
PUNITIVE IF THERE DURESS
Legal sources emphasize that holding such parallel to the existing legislation has "no validity" judgments. And that would be something "punishable" if it were shown that there are constraints to force and comply undergo these punishments imposed. Usually, it is a public reprimand or expulsion directly confession. This second is traumatic when it suffers a member of a family of the same creed because thereafter should restrict the relationship with other relatives.
"I ended up with an anxiety attack. I was admitted to a hospital and stood there. I had to ask the nurses to not let them go"
In May 2014, the Minister of Justice of Finland, Anna-Maija Henriksson, warned that "no room" in the country "for two judicial systems" . He did so after 18 former members of Jehovah's Witnesses denounced the existence of these judicial committees with the capacity to condemn the "ostracism" the accused.
TO THE MOSSOS
Miguel Garcia says that leaving the organization almost five years ago was "harassed" by his former teammate. "I ended up suffering an anxiety attack, I was admitted to the hospital and stood there. I had to ask the nurses not to let them in," he recalls.
On April 19, 2014 sent them a burofax to require that lawenforcement protection of personal data erase all information concerning him. They answered and said documents, they would stay with their data because he kept on file consisting as "baptized member."
After receiving the summons for trial, he has reported to the Mossos to Jehovah's Witnesses harassment, for refusing to delete personal data and cover up sexual abuse he suffered in a congregation of Belgium, and has taken legal action for moral damages.
Aníbal Matos, a spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses, admitted the existence of these judicial committees but said that "not mandatory" nor "punishments are imposed." It is only interventions to "give biblical guidance" to members of a congregation.
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covert sexual abuse
The complainant relates to the Mossos that Jehovah's Witnesses urged him to silence the attacks he suffered when he was younger
FERRAN NADEU
Miguel Garcia says he suffered sexual abuse of minor but Jehovah's Witnesses was asked to denounce them.
RICARD FADRIQUE
Headquarters of the French congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cardedeu, the last one that belonged Miguel Garcia.
Miguel Garcia was born a Jehovah 's Witness. It ceased to be when they turn 38 years. Or would stop being so. Now 43 and has gone to the Mossos to denounce the harassment that has suffered since taking the decision to abandon this Christian confession . In this complaint he has revealed something else: he suffered repeated sexual abuse by a member of this community.
Ensures that happened when I was 16, about 1990. Then he belonged to a Spanish - speaking congregation that this creed is in Brussels (Belgium). The assailant was a man who kept "a good relationship" with his family and which was "normal" to stay "alone"."I did everything, but there was no penetration," he explained during his interview with the newspaper. At 19, already in Spain, he told the elders of a congregation of Castellar del Vallès he had lived. " They organized a hearing" and the three elders urged him to give "full details".
At the end, he was promised he would receive "spiritual support" but asked him not to file charges, although asegua I made it clear that there were more victims of the same sex offender. "Do not let us bring disgrace to our community , " were the words he heard in 1993.
"Do not let us bring disgrace to our community , " she says Garcia told him when he revealed sexual abuse
Garcia is convinced that the elderly noted all the information provided at that session-their personal data, the alleged pederast and sexual-abuse and introduced in an envelope. "They kept the original in the archives of the congregation and sent a copy to the headquarters in Madrid," he maintains. He also detailed the Mossos that there are more reports like yours in other Spanish congregations also have been reported.
IT IS NOT AN ISOLATED CASE
Aníbal Matos, a spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses in Spain - a company with 8.5 million devotees worldwide, 115,000 in Spain and 32,000 in Catalunya- only has adamantly denied that this community has self - managed cases of sexual abuse they have occurred within this religious organization.
"Witnesses respect the law and we have never concealed sexual abuse of a minor or covered any pederast", he noted. Matos has also denied the existence of an alleged file that stores the hypothetical cases of child abuse. "There is no because it would go against the law of protection of personal data," he remarked.
The spokesman, who has himself admitted the existence of court hearings staged by three elders of each congregation (although remarked that are only to give "biblical counseling" to those who need it) wanted to stress that in any case the action of a internal tribunal "excludes" the action of ordinary justice. Should be the elderly themselves "those who give way" to inform authorities before each case.
INTERNAL DOCUMENT
Miguel Garcia, during his interview with this newspaper, has provided a supposed internal document which he said was issued from the national headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses in Madrid and that is dated August 1, 2016. The "matter" in question is "protection of children against abuse".
Paragraph 20 of this document, addressed to the elders of each congregation, says "persons related documents on which weighs an allegation of sexual abuse of minors (...) should be stored in an envelope with your name and the annotation 'Do not destroy'. The envelope will be retained indefinitely in the confidential file of the congregation. "
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