Mob assaults JW family in India
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 2:36AM A mob viciously assaulted a family of Jehovah's Witnesses in India's southern state of Karnataka. The family of five, which included an infant 18-months old, and a 60 year-old woman was severely beaten in a village near Dharmasthala.
According to report from the Jehovah's Witnesses official website, the family was returning from visiting a neighbor who had shown interest in learning about the Jehovah's Witnesses religion when a mob accosted them and accused them of forcibly converting people to the Jehovah's Witnesses religion. The mob severely beat two male members of the family with fists and sticks and struck the 18 month-old baby in its mother's arms. The mob also verbally abused the women and threatened them with rape.
The police, according to report, initially refused to accept complaint by the Witnesses while accepting complaint lodged by the attackers who said that the Jehovah's Witness family had tried to forcibly convert non-Jehovah's Witnesses. The police allowed the Jehovah's Witnesses to lodge complaint only after they had detained the family for seven hours in spite of the fact they had suffered injuries during the attack.
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