User login Discover the city's most popular sights and attractions from one of Europe's largest royal palaces to the magnificent Prado Museum and the Real Madrid football stadium.  Take a peek at our selection of the most important events taking place in Madrid and start planning your next visit Bitter Winter A magazine on religious liberty and human rights 04/10/2025Massimo Introvigne A+ | A- “Bitter Winter” reported about the strange situation created at the Court of Torrejón de Ardoz in Spain where four similar cases led to opposite decisions by the same court All four cases were initiated by the Spanish branch of the Jehovah’s Witnesses An anti-cult group exists in Spain called Spanish Association of the Victims of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (AEVTJ) The AEVTJ’s activity consists in labelling the Jehovah’s Witnesses as a “cult” harmful to its “victims,” with the customary accusations used by anti-cult associations throughout the world the Spanish Jehovah’s Witnesses were of the view that their right to honor was violated and decided to react On October 2, 2023, the First Section of the Court of First Instance of Torrejón de Ardoz ruled that the newspaper “El Mundo” had been fed false information by the AEVTJ and had published them It ordered the newspaper to publish the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ reply and to pay the litigation costs On October 25, 2023, the same First Section of the Court of First Instance of Torrejón de Ardoz found the Secretary of the AEVTJ, Enrique Carmona, guilty of having violated the right to honor of the Jehovah’s Witnesses through the core statements of one of his videos that AEVTJ’s statements were within the limits of freedom of expression even if some of them were possibly not true Finally, on December 22, 2023, the same Sixth Session of the Court of First Instance of Torrejón de Ardoz and the same Judge Raquel Chacón Campollo ruled against the Jehovah’s Witnesses and in favor of a member of the AEVTJ who had also been sued for posting on the Internet statements offending the right to honor of the religious group Although the statements the Jehovah’s Witnesses objected to in the four cases were not identical they were similar and ultimately came from the same AEVTJ sources The difference between the four verdicts rendered by the same court created an idiosyncratic situation as they went to different sections of the Audiencia Provincial Civil of Madrid the Eleventh (President: Judge Cesáreo Duro Ventura) and the Eighteenth (President: Judge Jésus C which rendered once again contradictory decisions the Eleventh Section of the Audiencia Provincial Civil of Madrid examined the appeal by Enrique Carmona against the decision of October 25 it ruled in favor of Carmona and against the Jehovah’s Witnesses A key theme of the case was the use of the Spanish word “secta,” which should be translated in English as “cult” (not as “sect,” which does not have the same meaning) The Jehovah’s Witnesses insisted the word is offensive while Carmona relied on dictionary definitions that are more neutral The Eleventh Section’s decision is the first I know of where judges asked artificial intelligence for the meaning of “cult” (secta) “The term ‘cult’ [secta] is sometimes used to refer to a religious philosophical or ideological group that separates or distinguishes itself from a mainstream or traditional group often with beliefs or practices that are considered unusual or extreme by society in general the sect has a charismatic leader and its members follow specific beliefs or rituals that can be very different or stricter than those of established religions Sometimes the term ‘cult’ has a negative connotation associated with dangerous or manipulative practices especially when there is psychological control over the members or social isolation its use depends on the context and the social perception of that group.” the decision concluded that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are a “secta” (cult) because historically they separated themselves from “the Adventists” and within the context of the Spanish society they are perceived as separated from mainline Catholicism because “Catholics believe that God the Father One wonders whether the Eleventh Section also consulted the artificial intelligence to learn what opponents accuse the Jehovah’s Witnesses of or simply relied on Spanish anti-cultists. On the other hand, with a decision notified on March 26, 2025, the Eighteen Section of the Audiencia Provincial Civil of Madrid, ruling on one of the appeals filed by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, overturned the decision by Judge Raquel Chacón Campollo of December 22, 2023 and found in favor of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The court agreed that even harsh and controversial expressions are protected by freedom of expression, but stated that this principle is not without limits. When expressions of hostility remain “generic,” through offensive and emphatic, they are still within the limits of freedom of expression. This is not the case, however, when criticism is expressive through “offensive and injurious sentences” that are not “generic” and “insults.” The appeal court thus condoned “the expressions and statements of the defendant regarding his own consideration as a victim; that, generically, the plaintiff confession does not respect human rights or the qualification of a religious company.” The court did not conclude that these statements are true. However, as long as they remain “generic,” they do not include “insulting or degrading expressions.” Contradictions in Spanish courts continue. Perhaps the Court of Cassation may put things in order. the dissolution was pronounced after the methods for soliciting donations that the court had objected to had almost disappeared この決定は、日本に「公共の福祉」に基づいて権利を制限しないよう求めた国連の３つの勧告を無視した。 Un convegno in una prestigiosa sede istituzionale ha visto il confronto fra accademici e personalità religiose 民事訴訟では、刑事訴訟のような厳格な事実認定基準は求められない。そのため、民事訴訟は解散の根拠として用いられるべきではない。 CESNURVia Confienza 1910121 TorinoItalyinfo@bitterwinter.org Copyright © 2025 · Bitter Winter · PRIVACY POLICY· COOKIE POLICY The Roman market of Torrejón de Ardoz celebrates a new edition with an extensive program that will extend over three days for Lovers of themed and period markets are in luck: with the good weather these leisure proposals multiply and among them is the Roman market of Torrejón de Ardoz which returns this weekend to the Madrid municipality In parallel, the Roman market of Torrejón will have other activities ranging from workshops to demonstrations of combat or storytelling, for the youngest of the house If this weekend you can’t make a getaway to see the Roman market in Torrejón, you can still get your thorn out with the great Roman market in Alcalá de Henares Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Pedro Sánchez visited the UME headquarters at the Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base The chief executive held a meeting with the heads of this Army Unit which has 1,200 troops deployed in the areas affected by the DANA and whom he thanked for the extraordinary work they are carrying out in these towns Sánchez was able to see first-hand the work being carried out by the Military Emergency Unit since Tuesday last when it was activated and arrived in the area affected by the DANA and which is focusing mainly on the tasks of rescuing people and clearing debris In addition to the more than 2,000 military personnel on the ground 5,000 more members of the army will be added between Saturday and Sunday as announced by the President of the Government in his institutional declaration on Saturday morning This website uses its own and third-party cookies to maintain the session, offer a better user experience and obtain statistical data on user navigation. 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Noticias para Municipios explains that the student recorded the video, showed it to her mother Coral, who then alerted authorities and helped make the footage public other nursery staff – including the director – were present in the room during the abuse but did not intervene This failure to act has of course intensified parental anger several families have filed formal complaints while many others have already pulled their children from the nursery Parents have been gathering at the school gates demanding answers and accountability El Mundo reports that the Torrejón de Ardoz City Council has formally requested that the Madrid-East Territorial Directorate of the Ministry of Education urgently launch an investigation They have also asked the Education Inspection Service to assess the school’s operation and overall compliance with educational law The Torrejón de Ardoz City Council is offering assistance through its Education Department (located at Calle Boyeros 5) including help 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Maquinter for over 31 years,” said Dr Ingo Ettischer “We see great potential and increased demand for the future in the growing Spanish market By integrating Maquinter into our organisation we are strengthening our position in the long term and further expanding our presence in the asphalt segment in the region.” The new subsidiary will be named Bomag Ibérica de Maquinaria The company said it will distrubute Bomag‘s complete product portfolio “Machinery will be sold either directly to end customers or via a well-established dealer and service partner network all over the Spanish mainland and the Canary Island,“ added Bomag The new company will retain its operational headquarters in Torrejon de Ardoz which is located just east of the City of Madrid in the Community of Madrid Bomag said all 20 Maquinter employees will continue to work at the site as part of the Bomag Group Bomag vice president of sales and marketing “It gives me great pleasure to welcome the experienced employees of Maquinter to the Bomag family – this merger significantly strengthens our network in the Spanish market “With their expertise and the new structures we will be able to support our customers even more effectively with Bomag‘s machine expertise and first-class service.“ Off Highway Research - Market research Unique marketing services that create demand for your products locally Marketing Services Download Media Kits Change of venue: For reasons beyond the control of the organisation As it is impossible to hold the event at IFEMA MADRID it will take place at the Recinto Ferial Torrejón de Ardoz (just 15 minutes from IFEMA) Madrid presents a new edition of this live music festival which will take place on 19 and 20 September 2025 at Recinto Ferial Torrejón de Ardoz It is a space designed to break the norms of the genre through fantasy with performances by national and international artists of pop and techno hits the participation of groups and artists like Anastacia which was a sell-out in 2024 and brought together more than 50,000 spectators, has several areas and stages (HITS as well as a gastronomy corner with food trucks and different spaces that will liven up the experience beyond the music Attendees will be able to present their ground breaking looks in an atmosphere of freedom Each edition will propose a dress code based on a theme that will be announced in advance The 2025 edition has confirmed the participation of Julieta the latest sensation of Spanish pop who has become one of Spain’s most promising artists thanks to her powerful voice and fresh style with songs like Tum Valores and Tu Juru Ju Her performance at the festival is set to be one of the most awaited One Day In Your Life or Sick and Tired. Having sold more than 20 million albums worldwide Anastacia is considered to be one of the great international pop divas starting out as an ABBA cover version group although they went on to perform their own material from the second album onwards.  Throughout their career they have released four studio albums and a fifth compilation album.  In February 2024 the group announced its much awaited return at the Melodifestivalen Brava Madrid has also confirmed the participation of Chanel Spain’s representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022; the British singer Pixie Lott; the Spanish indie rock and pop group, Miss Caffeina; the singer better known by her artistic name of María Escarmiento, presenting the songs from her latest album, iCandy; and the Argentinean singer and songwriter, Ms Nina​.​​​​​​ See Full Programme Check official webpage Check official webpage festivals and classical concerts held in the Spanish capital Conveniently located just minutes from the airport this huge venue hosts large-scale fairs such as ARCO and Fitur The city’s new official sightseeing and tourist travel pass Our online store (in Spanish) sells artisan souvenirs You will be automatically redirected to the requested page after 3 seconds.Don't close this page Costco is betting on the Spanish market: it is fighting for the acquisition of two giant plots of land next to the Oasiz shopping center with the one in Getafe and the one in Las Rozas three stores in the outskirts of the capital is pending several urban planning procedures and the lifting of an embargo imposed by New Asset Management (NAM) which is claiming 3.5 million euros from Allison Iberia Costco intends to grow and consolidate its presence in the Spanish market Valencia and Asturias could host one of its superstores during the company’s next few years Costco is already on the lips of many shopping lovers for its successful business model: its product diversification and its membership system make its stores very attractive you have to pay an annual fee of 36 euros per year (30 for the self-employed) to enter its stores but the advantages it has are hard to beat developed by the Directorate General for Spanish Citizens Abroad is similar to the one promoted for Spanish-Palestinians through the Directorate General for Spanish Citizens Abroad and Return Policies has launched an urgent assistance programme for families evacuated from Lebanon by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and who arrived yesterday in Torrejón de Ardoz from Beirut in two planes chartered by the Ministry of Defence People who do not have the resources to live their lives during their stay in our country which reports to the Secretary of State for Migration will be responsible for just over 50 Spanish-Lebanese people although it is possible these figures could increase in the near future This assistance will be provided by means of a declaration of emergency The coordination of the aid will be carried out by ACCEM an organisation with extensive experience in collaborating with the MISSM both in the Humanitarian Assistance Programme and in the International and Temporary Protection System This programme is similar to the one launched almost a year ago and who reside in different parts of our country Social Security and Migration provides protection to more than 56,600 people of whom almost 50,000 are accommodated in our resources (between Humanitarian Assistance and International Protection) Evacuated families arrive in Torrejón de Ardoz (Pool Moncloa) The City Council of Torrejón de Ardoz announces the two artists as the first confirmed of Torrejón Summer Fest 2025 according to the latest information provided by the consistory this year the Madrid city is on track to follow the same trail This is evident after one of the first major confirmations for the concerts of Torrejón Summer Fest 2025 which will feature the presence of American Nicky Jam the Sevillian JC Reyes has confirmed his performance The first to perform will be the Sevillian and Nicky Jam’s turn will come on June 22 Both concerts will be held at the Recinto de Conciertos del Ferial the only stop they will make in Madrid this year Tickets for both concerts are on sale from April 9 through Viva Ticket and prices are as follows: there is a way to attend these concerts completely free: the requirement is to be registered in Torrejón de Ardoz People who meet this requirement can download the invitations two weeks before each of the concerts The City Council has added that it will give “more information soon” If you are passionate about live music and can’t wait for the summer, we recommend this article in which we compile the best concerts you can’t miss in April It also includes information on performances in the following months in case you want to plan your agenda with your possible companions María Becerra or Nicki Nicole are some of the names that will come to Torrejón de Ardoz in the penultimate weekend of June It could almost be said that this summer festivals of the (wrongly) called urban music are being held in Spain with a line-up full of names with less strength than those that the Torrejón de Ardoz City Council has managed to add for its popular festivals The penultimate weekend of June will be when the Recinto Ferial de la localidad torrejonense will host artists such as Myke Towers (43 million listeners) Maria Becerra (25 million) or Nicki Nicole (24) which last year invited artists such as Justin Quiles has defined this year’s line-up as “the most international” some of the concerts have been programmed exclusively for local residents and below we will tell you how you can get the tickets Under the pretext of controlling the capacity and avoid crowds that can be expected due to the popularity of some artists such as Myke Towers the City Council of Torrejón raises the need to be registered in the city to attend the concert The mechanism for requesting invitations has not yet been opened the only way to attend certain concerts is through the need for a person registered in Torrejón de Ardoz to give an invitation according to the website of Fiestas de Torrejon each registered Torrejonero will be given a maximum of two or three free invitations per concert Visitors enjoy the ice sculptures on display at the Ice Festival in Torrejon de Ardoz 2022 shows the ice sculptures at the Ice Festival in Torrejon de Ardoz A total of 139 Spanish-Palestinian citizens and their families evacuated from Gaza have arrived at the Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base in Madrid where they were received by the acting Minister for Defence and the acting Minister for Foreign Affairs The contingent travelled on an Air and Space Army A330 aircraft having been picked up this morning in Cairo The group of evacuees that had requested to leave Gaza consists of 39 women and 33 men three children under the age of one and 64 under the age of 18 the Air Deployment Support Squadron (EADA) the Aero Evacuation Medical Unit (UMAER) and the Combat Air Command (MACOM) took part in the operation all under the operational control of the Operations Command After welcoming the evacuees at the foot of the plane's stairs the acting Minister for Defence stated that "Spain will always be there in difficult and complicated situations" and referred to the effectiveness of the "joint and difficult work" in which both ministries personnel from the National Intelligence Centre the Air and Space Army crew and the Operations Command were involved "We will always remain committed to just causes to save people who are being subjected to indiscriminate violence" who added that the minors who have arrived in Spain will have "a new life and a new homeland" in this country European Union and Cooperation stressed that this was an "extremely complex" operation which required the authorisations of the Israeli and Egyptian governments He also thanked Qatar for its cooperation in making the evacuation possible and the work of the embassies in Egypt Israel and the Consulate General in Jerusalem and we must not forget all the Palestinian civilians who are still living through the unbearable horror of Gaza right now The Government of Spain will not stop calling for a humanitarian ceasefire so that humanitarian aid can enter Gaza and reach the civilian population" who insisted on the Spanish proposal for a Peace Conference that would lead to the materialisation of a two-state solution Ministers welcomed and talked with the new arrivals Admiral General Teodoro López Calderón and the Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs composed mainly of families with very young children and elderly people in vulnerable situations left on Monday through the Rafah border crossing and travelled in buses with Spanish embassy staff to Cairo A second contingent of some 80 people left on Tuesday and a final group left Gaza on Wednesday for the Egyptian capital where the total contingent left for Spain today The acting ministers for Defence and for Foreign Affairs Margarita Robles and José Manuel Albares receive the 139 Spanish-Palestinian and their families evacuated from Gaza at the Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed has an extensive program for all audiences There will be music for all tastes and in different stages of the capital From morning family concerts in the Nave 16.1 of Matadero to renowned artists such as Hens Cala Vento or Erika de Casier in the Nave de Terneras we will also be able to enjoy a documentary film series at the Sala Azcona of Cineteca El Retiro will also host its own version of San Juan with a festival of emerging bands and a concert by La Guardia The Torrejón de Ardoz City Council this year wanted its festivities to be the most international to date And you only have to look at their concert line-up to see that they have succeeded Artists such as Myke Towers (43 million listeners) María Becerra (25 million) or Nicki Nicole (24) will be present during the penultimate weekend of June at the local fairgrounds The most important thing of all is that these concerts will be free of charge only people registered in Torrejón de Ardoz will have access to the invitations For the performances of the most international artists invitations were sold out in less than 48 hours you can still write to your colleague from Torrejon to see if he will lend you one or enjoy the many other concerts for which you will not need a ticket 📍 Recinto Ferial and Plaza Mayor de Torrejón de Ardoz The neighborhoods of the district of Usera (Almendrales Pradolongo and Orcasur) will have this year’s festivities as complete as possible All of them at 22:00 at Recinto ferial in Pradolongo Among the concerts that this young festival will offer we can find singers like Lucía de la Puerta or Shego or Sofía Gabanna groups like Batucada que entiende and DJs like Fukcnormal or Los Xavales 📍 Multipurpose Black Esplanade of Madrid Río The string of national and international artists that make up the line-up of this eighth edition does not disappoint Pixies… will be at the Alfonso XIII Botanical Garden of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) between June and July and will make the summer in Madrid 📍 Alfonso XIII Botanical Garden of the Complutense University of Madrid (Avenida Complutense LGTBIQ+ Pride will fill the streets of the city with diversity On the stages spread between Plaza de las Reinas Puerta del Sol and Plaza de España we will be able to experience live performances by some of the most beloved artists by the LGTBIQ+ community La Grande Dame or María Peláe but also allies such as Nebulossa Barei or Merche will perform from July 3 to 7 in the biggest -and respectful- celebration of the city 📍 Different locations throughout the city Twenty years have already passed since the first popular and combative festivities of La Karmela in Vallekas and the self-managed version of the Carmen festivities will have a very powerful Program The central courtyard of the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque will be the epicenter of this long-lived festival these concerts are joined by many other activities in places such as museums 01/15/2024Massimo Introvigne A+ | A- I reported the score as 2–1 for the Jehovah’s Witnesses The Torrejón de Ardoz judges had ruled twice that the harsh expressions used by the AEVTJ and spread through various channels describing the Jehovah’s Witnesses as a “destructive cult” violated the right to honor of the religious organization the same court had decided that similar expressions did not violate the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ right to honor another Torrejón de Ardoz decision was rendered against the Jehovah’s Witnesses and in favor of a member of the AEVTJ The two decisions in favor of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have been rendered by the first section of the Court of First Instance of Torrejón de Ardoz and the two against them by Judge Raquel Chacón Campollo Given the precedent decision of December 5 by Judge Chacón the new one of December 22 is not surprising It is based on the same interpretation of Spanish law claiming that to avoid being regarded as offending the right to honor of a person or group the truth (verdad) of a statement is not necessary and its “veracity” (veracidad) is enough The December 22 decision repeats that it refers to “veracity which should not be confused with truth” (p To prove “veracity,” the defendants should simply show that the information they are spreading is found in a plurality of sources that they might have regarded (perhaps wrongly) as reliable I understand that this is a subtle distinction for those without legal training and the media are claiming that Judge Chacón confirmed the “truth” of the claim that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are a “destructive cult.” In fact She wrote that “the defendant describes the religious denomination as an extremist and destructive cult which but … is an opinion or statement in which the requirement of veracity is met” (p but those claiming that Judge Chacón certified that the statement that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are a “destructive cult” is true misunderstood her decision She has explained time and again that considering a statement “veracious,” thus not offending the right to honor With all due respect to Judge Chacón, this is frankly laughable. If the expressions used by Pedrero do not offend the right to honor of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, then such offenses do not exist. We urgently need superior judges to restore some sanity in Torrejón de Ardoz. Nesprávne rozhodnutie o zamietnutí štátnych dotácií a zrušení registrácie tejto organizácie kvôli prístupu k bývalým členom bolo v odvolacom konaní zrušené En este momento no hay otros eventos relacionados Visita nuestra página de inicio para buscar más eventos 12/18/2023Massimo Introvigne A+ | A- A Kingdom’s Hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Spain (Roquetas de Mar From X.In a country as passionate for soccer as Spain the difference between winning three to zero and two to one is easily understood when the “goals” are decisions rendered by different judges of the same court with respect to the same a confusion is created that perhaps superior judges should one day solve It exists in Spain an anti-cult group called Spanish Association of the Victims of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (AEVTJ) The AEVTJ’s activity consists in exposing the Jehovah’s Witnesses as a “cult” harmful to its “victims,” with the customary laundry list of accusations used by anti-cult associations throughout the world the Spanish Jehovah’s Witnesses found that their right to honor was violated and decided to react Their “match” against the AEVTJ was played in the Court of Torrejón de Ardoz and went (so far) through three stages disassociated ex-members and those who had publicly left the organization amount to illegally inflicting a form of “social death” to those former members AEVTJ (which was the source of what “El Mundo” published) 0 Bardavío bizarrely claimed that the AEVTJ had “won” the case Who wins cases of this kind is clearly indicated by who is sentenced to pay money to the other party and it was Carmona who had to give 5.000 euros to the Jehovah’s Witnesses rather than the other way around Several individual Jehovah’s Witnesses and their Spanish religious organization had sued AEVTJ directly They claimed that its activities and publications violated the right to honor of the Jehovah’s Witnesses This case was decided by the Sixth rather than the First Section of the Court of First Instance of Torrejón de Ardoz which on December 5 found against the Jehovah’s Witnesses and declared that the AEVTJ had not violated their right to honor and it seems somewhat strange that Section 6 of the Torrejón de Ardoz court ignored and contradicted what Section 1 had clearly stated Madrid, Spain, 2019: “Love Never Fails!” International Convention of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Source: jw.org.It is always useful to read the whole decision which Attorney Bardavío and AEVTJ propaganda on social media is already reducing to “we won and a judge certified that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are a bad cult.” While I find the decision poorly motivated and biased it is nonetheless more complicated than that more than in the case law of other countries freedom of expression has been traditionally protected over the right to honor when the two rights enter into a conflict this is particularly true when the right to honor of a religious organization is considered Spanish courts have allowed critics of the Catholic Church to declare that it is “a political power rather than a religion,” that it has systematically protected pedophile priests Spanish case law believes that associations targeting a particular religion and gathering its disgruntled ex-members may play the role of the “watchdog” and provided that “they do not go beyond the limits… of religious liberty,” may even exert a positive role in inducing religions to improve and reform (p The judge’s interpretation of Spanish case law is questionable In a scholarly article written before the decision with reference to the slander campaign against the Jehovah’s Witnesses He wrote that under Spanish law “the freedom to express opinions will prevail over the right to honor insofar as these opinions are the expression of an ‘animus criticandi’ or an ‘animus jocandi’ [criticism or humorous satire] freedom of expression does not protect the right to insult it does not protect those disqualifications that have been made from an unequivocal ‘animus injuriandi,’ that is humiliate or defile a natural person or in this case a religious denomination… Expressions that can be included in the category of hate speech are outside the scope of freedom of expression” (“Honor de las confesiones religiosas ante la libertad de expresión: especial referencia a los Testigos de Jehová,” “Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Eclesiástico del Estado” 63 [October 2023] The second principle mentioned by the Torrejón decision is that “veracity [veracidad] should not be confused with truth [verdad]” (p the decision states that to be protected by freedom of expression even when potentially harmful to the right to honor of a community when media report that an organization has been accused of a certain harmful behavior “veracity” should not be identified with the “accuracy of the news” (exactitud de la noticia) “The veracity required is limited to the objective truth of the existence of the statement,” even if the statement reported is not accurate (p Veracity “must be understood as the result of the diligent activity deployed by the communicator in verifying that the information he intends to disseminate conforms to reality it is proven that such information is not accurate after the corresponding judicial or investigative process the decision stated that establishing the “truthfulness” or the “accuracy” of the accusations raised by the AEVTJ was not necessary to conclude that they are protected by freedom of expression spreading inaccurate information that the Jehovah’s Witnesses had been covering child abuse The judge also inaccurately wrote that in Belgium “the confession [the Jehovah’s Witnesses] was condemned” for hiding sexual abuses (p. 50), while in fact the contrary happened. It was the Belgian government and its anti-cult agency that were found guilty by the Court of Brussels of having falsely and without evidence accused the Jehovah’s Witnesses of concealing sexual abuses It was a decision the Spanish judge regarded as not applicable to her case since it protected religious liberty rather the right to honor A place of worship (Kingdom Hall) of the Jehovah’s Witnesses vandalized on September 11 Whoever wrote “secta” (cult) on the building certainly did not intend the word as non-derogatory or neutral.Ultimately the decision adopted a free-market approach “Even if some expressions are inaccurate or exaggerated the right to freedom of expression and information prevails over the right to honor” (p the Jehovah’s Witnesses are incited to go public “to explain or defend their beliefs even more so in today’s society in which there are various means of communication and digital resources to freely express their opinions.” ka lemtspējīgam pilngadīgam pacientam ir tiesības atteikties no jebkādas medicīniskās ārstēšanas There is no logical reason to change decades of case law and hold that civil torts may be reasons to dissolve a religious organization “Bitter Winter” acquired an interesting document on the relationship between the most prominent Russian anti-cultist and the notorious European anti-cult federation The case of Fuyang Maizhong Reformed Church confirms that the category of “organizations promoting heterodox teachings” may be expanded at the authorities’ will A 44-year-old man was also injured as a result of the crash Una motocicleta impacta con un vehículo de @guardiacivil al iniciarse una persecución tras saltarse un control. #TorrejónDeArdoz El #SUMMA112 confirma el fallecimiento de una mujer y traslada en estado grave a un hombre al Hospital Gregorio Marañón. Ambos iban en la moto. pic.twitter.com/Edy13ntopM — 112 Comunidad de Madrid (@112cmadrid) April 22, 2023 Despite attempting to carry out resuscitation techniques for more than half an hour, the doctors could not prevent the death of the other occupant of the motorcycle. According to the same sources, the officers travelling in the Guardia Civil vehicle were unharmed, as reported by 20minutos.es Two people have been arrested on suspicion of preparing and distributing the synthetic drug known as 'pink cocaine' in Malaga Police say they had set up the laboratory in their own home in Torrejón de Ardoz opiates and coffee to obtain the required pink colour was responsible for delivering it to different places in his own vehicle The 'modus operandis' of the distributor to bring the drug to Malaga was always the same He would drive during the night to Fuengirola or Marbella spend no more than half an hour delivering the supply and then make the return journey to Madrid in the early morning Both men were arrested following a tip-off from the authorities in Colombia which led police in Spain to discover the makeshift laboratory the two suspects had been planning to move to Colombia because they were aware they were being investigated and a supply of the chemicals and other substances needed to make the pink cocaine cryptocurrency wallets and equipment used for producing the drug Comentar es una ventaja exclusiva para registrados