JW's Wins a Court Case in Spain

[Dustparticle]

Last year a newspaper print out some defamatory stuff on JW's and Witnesses sued and won. https://bitterwinter.org/spain-jehovahs-witnesses-win-important-case-against-el-mundo/

[trottigy]

Here is a snippet,

 

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In the decision, which is subject to appeal, the court did not limit itself to recognize the right of reply of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It also discussed the merit, finding the allegations of the Association of Victims of Jehovah’s Witnesses both likely to cause damage to the religious organization and inaccurate. 

 

[GeordieGirl]

A Spanish court ordered the newspaper to publish the reply of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to a defamatory 2022 article. 

 

........ on November 21, 2022, published a slanderous article based on information supplied by the anti-cult organization Association of Victims of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. 

 

.... the court did not limit itself to recognize the right of reply of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It also discussed the merit, finding the allegations of the Association of Victims of Jehovah’s Witnesses both likely to cause damage to the religious organization and inaccurate. 

 

... “from any point of view, the article mentions allegations by third parties that cause undeniable damage to the religious association.”

 

... the judges examined “whether the allegations in the article are inaccurate,” and concluded that most are. 

 

Second, the article refers to “testimonies of alleged victims of sexual abuse within the religious denomination …, alluding to a certain situation in Australia where allegedly ‘they hid more than a thousand cases of sexual abuse.’” The article also mentions a “former Jehovah’s Witness who reports that he was allegedly abused ‘among the Witnesses,’ .... on the one hand, there is no certain record of any conviction of the religious entity as a whole for the aforementioned unspecific cases of sexual abuse in Australia, so it is an inaccurate fact that the alleged events were concealed ..... it is not so much that the fact is true or not (in fact, no evidence of any convictions arising from such allegations, if any, has been provided), but that at all times the plural and collective number is used when referring to the alleged sexual abuse, to attribute to the religious denomination as a whole the responsibility for ‘sexual abuses perpetrated within the group’ rather than to the persons who in each case had caused the alleged abuses or sexual aggressions.”

 

Third, the practice by the Jehovah’s Witnesses of the so-called ostracism or shunning, ...... is qualified in the article as sentencing these former members to “social death” and “a silent hell.” The court found the description of the practices by the Association of Victims of Jehovah’s Witnesses as based on “facts that are not clearly proved, since it is one thing to assert the right or freedom to choose to relate with a certain person inside or outside a certain religious confession, and another that, as indicated in the article, ‘when they are inside the cult they are explicitly or implicitly forced to relate only with other faithful’”—which is “inaccurate.”

 

Worse, the court reports, “the article expressly states that ‘there are double standards, because many elders are either adulterers or pedophiles,’” and that the Jehovah’s Witnesses “encourage physical and moral suicide.” These allegations, .... " ..... lack a demonstrable objective basis,” and are “inaccurate and extremely damaging to the prestige of the plaintiff entity.”

 

https://bitterwinter.org/spain-jehovahs-witnesses-win-important-case-against-el-mundo/

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[GeordieGirl]

Sorry. I didn't realise you had posted this. I checked in the 'JWs in the news' forum and when it wasn't there, I didn't think it had been posted. 

I could have saved myself the hard work of copying all that information. 🤣

 

https://jwtalk.net/topic/56171-spain-jehovah’s-witnesses-win-important-case-against-“el-mundo”/#comment-948825

 

[Jwanon]

When will they realize they cannot win a fight against Jehovah

[GeordieGirl]

28 minutes ago, Jwanon said:

When will they realize they cannot win a fight against Jehovah

At Armageddon - when it's too late!