Stop Mandated Shunning

Join our global campaign to set legal precedents against mandated shunning as a violation of human rights #stopmandatedshunning

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Please help support our GoFundMe campaign to stop mandated shunning in high control religious organisations.

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The latest article from AJWRB is thought-provoking for anyone associated with a high-control religion. #mandatedshunning #jehovah #watchtower #bloodtransfusion #jehovahswitnesses https://t.co/0kbxGF3Efh

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The "stick and the carrot". How cult like groups control their members. #mandatedshunning https://t.co/OQFmLfCXKc

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Watchtower officials will deny that they practice mandated shunning. They will tiptoe around the issue and use clever half truths to obfuscate the practice as you can see in this BBC article. #stopmanadatedshunning https://t.co/DW5pyAsMwE

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Survivor accounts detailed allegations of child sexual abuse, psychological manipulation, forced isolation, brutal beatings, and fearmongering. https://t.co/U2jfaVkW8f

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I served as an elder for 12 years. Looking back, I see harm operating at multiple levels: Psychological harm to those shunned. Moral injury experienced by those tasked with enforcing the policy. #shunning #stopmandatedshunning https://t.co/1yq3DUMj3c

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I have struggled for years with feelings of shame, loneliness, lack of belonging, and confusion about spirituality. Shunning has affected all aspects of who I am today.#stopmandatedshunning #jw #watchtower #shunning https://t.co/Ai4TiWEiW1

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I kept staying in the cult for many years without believing anymore. I stayed to the point of attempting suicide, because I knew that if I left, I would lose what remained of my family. #stopmandatedshunning #JW #Watchtower #shunning https://t.co/nns5rBFfVF

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I was shunned, even though I was not baptized. No one would talk to me. No one attended my college graduation in 1976 because Armageddon was near. #shunning #mandatedshunning https://t.co/F1clkpQXJt

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Hilde Langvann, testified at the Borgarting Court of Appeals in Oslo, Norway in February, 2025. In this interview, she describes how both children and adults suffer from fear of shunning and from negative social control in closed religious environments.

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Norwegian Supreme Court:
Norway vs. Jehovah’s Witnesses Supreme Court hearing, day 2. In this video, Anders Ryssdal, the lawyer representing JW claims JW do not have a concept of shunning. But is that true?https://t.co/vaKo9OyfyY

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I live in fear that if the congregation learns how I feel, I will be formally disfellowshipped—now they call it “removed”—and that will be the extreme nail in the coffin to ever see my precious daughter. #jw #exjw #stopmandatedshunning https://t.co/z6KXvqY7du

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@Jerome16235677 Yes, Jerome

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The Jehovah's Witnesses mandated shunning practices and Norway's decision to pull state funding were the focus of Oslo's Supreme Court today.

What do you hope the outcome will be?

#humanrightsviolations #coercivecontrol #Norway #MandatedShunning #ostracism #JehovahsWitnesses

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Merete shares her experience of growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, being baptised as a minor, and the consequences of leaving, including being forced out of her home at 16 and losing contact with family. https://t.co/m6GO60UZe7
#humanrightsviolations #coercivecontrol #shunning

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I was not a Witness, but half my family was. I studied with a Witness to see what my family was into. I thought it was bogus and quit after several weeks. I am not easily led and didn’t go at the rate they wanted. Instead, I read ahead and ended it. https://t.co/c2nqJn08X9

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I’m not shunned yet, but I’m about 12 hours away from it. I was raised as a JW, and I was baptized before I was 12 years old just because it was about time for me to get baptized. #jw #exjw #norway #court #shunning #mandatedshunning #stopmandatedshunning https://t.co/Mxzy8DLADv

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My mother converted from Methodist to JW when I was less then a year old...As I got into my teen years, my siblings began to rebel; asking questions about the religion (cult), and getting into trouble. #stopmandatedshunning https://t.co/JpzKLgKJIS

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I was born into this environment and spent my first 18 years inside the community where my autonomy was denied. The doctrine within the group was not only incredibly strict and controlling but was to also keep men and women separate in their roles. https://t.co/XJxQWfLdnz

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No child should be forced to grow up with the understanding that one wrong thought or one wrong move could spiral their life into utter isolation with no familial support. #mandatedshunning https://t.co/6CTXenzR7C