Anti-cultists referred parents of “cult members” to deprogrammers. The latter, in turn, transferred a percentage of the honoraries to the anti-cultists.
Religious Liberty
CAN: Anti-Cultists, Deprogramming, And Crime. 7. Sexual Abuse as a Deprogramming Tool
The most damning documents the bankruptcy of CAN put at the scholars’ disposal concerned the sexually abusive behavior of deprogrammers towards their victims.
Un tribunal administratif français reconnaît le caractère diffamatoire des déclarations de la MIVILUDES à l’encontre des Témoins de Jéhovah
Le tribunal administratif de Paris a jugé qu’« une erreur de fait » a été commise en déclarant que les Témoins de Jéhovah ne signalent pas les abus sexuels sur enfant aux autorités et qu’ils découragent leurs enfants de poursuivre de longues études.
Pakistan, Tourist Lynched and Burned Alive for Alleged Blasphemy
A Muslim man visiting the popular tourist destination of Madyan was once again falsely accused of having burned pages of the Quran.
Street Evangelist Chen Wensheng Sentenced Again
He received a comparatively mild sentence (one year and seven months) but the authorities’s strategy is to keep arresting him (he was arrested more than 100 times).
Tai Ji Men’s Struggle and Challenges for Freedom of Belief in Taiwan and Internationally
By fighting for justice in their paradigmatic case, Tai Ji Men dizi (disciples) also fight for the freedom of many other persecuted spiritual movements.
CAN: Anti-Cultists, Deprogramming, And Crime. 6. “If You Pay Us to Say It’s a Cult, It’s a Cult”
Basically, anti-cultists and deprogrammers regarded as a “cult” any group that had as members children of parents willing to pay for deprogramming them.
Guangxi, Propaganda Against “Cults and Illegal Religion” Enters Corporations
The Wuzhou headquarters of Guangxi Zhaoxin Pingzhou Electronics hosted a pilot program of intensive indoctrination.
CAN: Anti-Cultists, Deprogramming, And Crime. 5. CAN and Illegal Deprogramming
Massive evidence confirmed that the anti-cultists referred parents of members of new religious movements to deprogrammers.
France, Administrative Court Finds MIVILUDES’s Statements About Jehovah’s Witnesses Defamatory
The Paris Administrative Court has concluded that it is “factually incorrect” to claim that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not report cases of child sexual abuse to secular authorities or that they discourage children from pursuing education.