The controversial 2019 decision of the Zurich District Court, which an antisect activist, Regina Spiess, was acquitted of defamation charges against Swiss Jehovah's Witnesses, has been widely used for an international propaganda campain against Jehovah's Witnesses by anti-sects groups and Russian government.

The central theme of that campaign was the procedure used by Jehovah's Witnesses to exclude ex-members, the ostracism of these excluded ex-members and the treatment of cases of sexual abuse within the congregation. 

The director of CESNUR Massimo Introvigne and the lawyer of the London Bar 

Association and president of FOB (European Federation for Freedom of Belief) 

Alessandro Amicarelli are the authors of this book, which starts from the Spiess 

case to examine the more general problems that emerged in its discussion.

Presentation of the book :