From Ruby Harrold-Claesson, Domenic Johansson’s lawyer:

A thriving Dominic is shown in a passport photograph, left, just before he was taken into custody by Swedish social-services agents. The right photo, obtained by the Dominic Johansson website, shows a “not-so-thriving Dominic” some months after he was forcibly placed in the Swedish foster-care system.

Yesterday, June 25, 2012, was the third anniversary of Domenic Johansson’s removal from the plane on which he and his parents were sitting, waiting to leave Sweden for India to start a new life. Swedish social authorities and the police violated Domenic’s and his family members’ basic human rights guaranteed in the European Convention Additional Protocol 4 Article 2:2, which guarantees: “Everyone is free to leave any country including his own”. Yet they were prevented from leaving Sweden.

It is of great importance that the world should learn about the terrible crimes that are being committed against children and their families in Sweden – which totally undeservingly enjoys the reputation of being the bastion for justice and protection for Human Rights around the world!

Please check out this link for more information:
http://www.nkmr.org/english/dominic_johansson_case_home-schooled_boy_snatched_from_plane.htm

In a major breakthrough, a Swedish district court has ruled that the parental rights of Annie and Christer Johansson will not be terminated. In its 23-page detailed opinion, the court stated it could not ignore the unanimous and extensive testimony of firsthand accounts of friends, family and others that Dominic Johansson was being properly cared for by his parents prior to Swedish authorities seizing him on June 26, 2009.

The boy and his parents were on board a jetliner minutes from departing Sweden for Annie’s home country of India when Dominic was seized. Authorities justified the taking by pointing to the fact that Dominic was homeschooled. Since then, the family has pursued numerous court actions only to lose in all of them until now.

Ruby Harrold-Claesson, the attorney in the case, said this was a huge development.

“I am absolutely elated!” Claesson said. “This family has suffered horribly for three years at the hands of these Swedish officials. There has not been any justice from the Swedish court system—until now. The social workers and authorities in Gotland have made this family’s life a nightmare for no good reason. I am very pleased that the district court finally saw through the flimsy case and has ruled solidly in favor of the Johanssons.”

HSLDA Attorney and Director of International Relations Michael Donnelly has been following the case closely. He noted the decision with…READ MORE

Contact Swedish Officials

Please contact the officials below to insist they return Dominic (above) to his family immediately in light of this latest court ruling.

Swedish Social Services Committee
Socialnämnden
Gotlands Kommun
621 81 Visby
SWEDEN

The social workers
sofi.rosenqvist@gotland.se
caroline.palmqvist@gotland.se
gunvor.allqvie@gotland.se

The social workers’ supervisors
kristina.djerf@gotland.se
marika.gardell@gotland.se

To follow the Domenic and his family go to this website:  http://friendsofdomenic.blogspot.co.nz/

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Needing help for your home schooling journey:

https://hef.org.nz/2011/needing-help-for-your-home-schooling-journey-2/

And

Here are a couple of links to get you started home schooling:

https://hef.org.nz/getting-started-2/

and

https://hef.org.nz/exemptions/

This link is motivational:
https://hef.org.nz/2012/home-schooling-what-is-it-all-about/

The weather isn’t the only chilly aspect of the climate for homeschoolers in Sweden! Mike Donnelly, HSLDA’s director of international relations, joins host Mike Farris this week on the program to survey the history of homeschooling in Sweden, give an update on recent developments, and explain how we can support homeschooling families there.
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