"Deprogramming has been declared illegal in all democratic countries, but is still practiced in South Korea. More than 3,000 members of [the] Shincheonji [Church of Jesus] have been kidnapped in South Korea for purposes of deprogramming. Two female Shincheonji devotees have died in connection with deprogramming. …South Korea needs a law, but not against Shincheonji or the so-called “cults.” It needs a law aligning South Korea with other democratic countries by outlawing the crime of deprogramming and forced conversion, and punishing hate speech against religious minorities."
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Compiler's Note: Deprogramming is, in the terms of Bitter Winter, the practice of kidnapping and confining a member of a religious group (often name-called as a "cult") and coercing him or her to quit that religious group (put simply, forced deconversion), and even struggle against that religious group (apostasy).
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