Abduction Called Rescue – It Was Confinement

They called it “rescue” – Paris attorney explains how families were pressured, freedoms stripped, and testimonies forced to enable activist lawyers to produce civil cases against religious minority Family Federation

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2nd part of a speech by Attorney Patricia Duval at a side event organized by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) at the 59th session of the Human Rights Council, in hall 25 of the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland 16th June 2025. Patricia Duval is a member of the Paris Bar Association, specializing in international human rights law. She has defended the rights of religious and faith minorities both in France and internationally. 

See part 1: 4,300 Victims: Huge Ignored Deprogramming Scandal

See also Japan: Hidden History of Coercive Faith-Breaking

The last point I want to stress in his [Koide’s] testimony is that at some point he realized he could not escape from the confinement because he had the whole family, a team of 12 people, watching him night and day.

The deprogrammers asked the parents to quit their jobs, and they spent a fortune for not having a job anymore and paying the deprogrammer.

They were there until the end. The father even said, “I have to kill you; I will kill you.” It meant they were going to the end. This is what the deprogrammers asked the parents to do. They were pushing the parents to do full confinement.

So he understood he could not escape. What happened is that he feigned. He pretended to have lost his faith, and the deprogrammers were really looking for those who were pretending. So he was put through a rehabilitation period where he had to prove that he actually had lost his faith.

This is why he was asked to do criticism in the media. He had media interviews where he was coached by the deprogrammer, and he had to be really strong against the Church.

He had to visit other confined members to give them a lot of criticism against the Church. And then finally he was taken to the lawyers to file a financial claim against the Church. He had to do all that to prove his apostasy from the Church.

This is something that we don’t really understand here in the West because we think,

“OK, they have decided to not believe in the church anymore. And they could just change their mind, and that’s it.”

But it’s not the point. The point is, years later, even 20 years later, they thought they could be abducted and confined again. They still had the pressure.

The only thing that freed him, gave him freedom of speech and freedom of choice is that he wrote a book. He published a book before coming open again. So he was protected. He could not be confined again.

And this is why now he’s testifying.

The thing is that all the cases that were built against the Church and serve as a dissolution basis, all those cases have been fabricated. They have been filed by people under coercion who had no resentment against the Church, and who did not consider themselves as victims.

They considered themselves as having a serious problem with family that they wanted to solve.

And this is the way they did it.

And so I really wanted to make this point clear because this is what I think is really striking in your [Hirohisa Koide’s] testimony.

See part 1: 4,300 Victims: Huge Ignored Deprogramming Scandal

See also Japan: Hidden History of Coercive Faith-Breaking

Featured image above: Attorney Patricia Duval speaking at the side event to the 59th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on 16th June 2025. From left: Norishige Kondo, Attorney Patricia Duval, Heiner Handschin. Photo: Screenshot from video recording by UPF.

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