Swedish authorities kidnapped Dominic Johansson, 7 years old

Free Christian Press: Swedish Government Seizes Child from Home-Schooling Family

“Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without government interference,” said ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska, who is based in Europe. “This is about a socialist government trying to create a cookie-cutter child in its own image. Without help, the parents in these cases are really powerless since the system is so one sided.”

källa

AFD: Swedish government seizes child from home-schooling family

En annan sida av ADF som tar upp fallet Dominic Johansson.

AC: Persecuted for Homeschooling, Swedish Family Looses Child

"The Swedish government is exercising its authority under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child to unnecessarily break up this family," states HSLDA attorney Mike Donnelly.

Källa

ADF: Swedish government seizes child from home-schooling family

"ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family."

Till artikeln om Dominic!

Namninsamling för Dominic Johansson

Amerikanarna gör nu en namninsamling för att återförena familjen Johansson. Skriv på du med, länk!

Enligt vad jag förstår så kommer man att överlämna listan till svenska ambassaden i USA, målet är 2500 namn.

Home Educators Association of Virginia

Home Educators Association of Virginia postar HSLDA´s nyhetsbrev på sin blogg. [1]

Dear HSLDA Members and Friends:

We recently told you about the plight of the Johanssons, a Swedish family whose only child, 7-year-old Dominic Johansson, was seized by Swedish police from a plane just as the family was about to leave the country for a new life in India.

After investigating the facts surrounding the case, HSLDA President J. Michael Smith wrote to Swedish officials to protest this action.

Svenska ambassaden i Washington

The Embassy has recently been contacted by a substantial number of people regarding a social matter in Sweden (Dominic Johansson).

We thoroughly understand that, as it has been presented, this matter has upset many. We appreciate receiving your comments, but we do not have the resources to accept them by telephone.

Läs mer

World Net Daily (2009-09-18) War on homeschoolers spreading?

Bob Unruh på World Net Daily skriver en ny artikel, "War on homeschoolers spreading?"

The desperate situation of a 7-year-old homeschooled child who was nabbed by Swedish police from an airliner as his family was departing on a move to India and has been kept in custody for weeks is drawing international attention, with officials for the U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association now pressing authorities for help.

The HSLDA, the premier organization in the world advocating for homeschooling, confirmed yesterday it has sent a formal letter to a local Swedish social services unit involved in the case in which Dominic Johansson, of Gottland, was forcibly taken into custody minutes before he and his parents, Christer and Annie Johansson, were due to take off to start a new life in India, Annie's home country.

HSLDA (2009-09-16) Brev till sveriges regering

Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA skriver på sin hemsida och berättar att de har skickat brev till Jan Björklund, Carl Bildt, Göran Hägglund, Beatrica Ask, Ambassadör Jonas Hafström, Ambassadör Matthew Barzun och Socialtjänsten på Gotland.



Läs hela brevet.

Världen Idag (2009-09-16) Hemundervisad pojke greps på Arlanda

Jonas Adolfsson hos Världen Idag skriver en artikel, "Hemundervisad pojke grps på Arlanda"

"I delar av USA, där två miljoner barn hemundervisas, har den svenska nyheten mottagits med stor oro. Och nu agerar landets största organisation för hemundervisning, Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA.
I ett officiellt brev som i dag, onsdag, hamnar hos skolminister Jan Björklund, Sveriges ambassadör i USA och hos socialtjänsten på Gotland, riktas stark kritik mot det svenska förfarandet."

Världen Idag har även en engelsk del där man har refererat till Don Hankś artikel Home schooled boy snatched from plane in Sweden.

Flera kommentarer har postats från besökare utomlands.

"This is a tragedy of major proportions! How can Sweden call themselves a free democracy? This is the nanny state at its worst, yet it is also indicative of the way things are going to be going for Christians in the West in the years to come, I'm afraid. My prayers are with this family."
Steven Gilbert, USA