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Jun 29, 2009
Infinite Complacency: The Paris Trial // Purification Rundown: defendants
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Day 4 (June 2): The court trying six Scientologists and two Scientology associations heard from one of the defendants responsible for managing the Paris centre’s Purification Rundown. [...]
Jun 29, 2009
Infinite Complacency: The Paris Trial // Rosenberg's testimony I
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Day 4 (June 2): Alain Rosenberg, "managing director" of Scientology’s Paris Celebrity Centre, presented a vigorous defence — to the point where he had to be called to order by his own lawyer. [...]
Jun 15, 2009
French prosecutor seeks dissolution of Scientology — ReutersMore: rickross.com
Type: Press
Source:
Reuters (Reuters) — A French prosecutor on Monday recommended a Paris court should dissolve the Church of Scientology's French branch when it rules on charges of fraud against the organization. Registered as a religion in the United States, with celebrity members such as actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, Scientology enjoys no such legal protection in France, where it has faced repeated accusations of being a money-making cult. The Church's Paris headquarters and bookshop are defendants in a fraud trial that began ...
Jun 11, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial: The Purification Rundown
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Day 4 (June 2): an expert witness dismissed Scientology’s Purification Rundown as quackery as the Paris trial considered the high doses of vitamins used in the programme. [...]
Jun 9, 2009
Latest news from the French Scientology trial — DigitalJournal.com
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Michael Cosgrove Source:
DigitalJournal.com The Church of Scientology is on trial in Paris for organised fraud. Six individuals and two organisations have been charged and if they are found guilty the Church may well have to wind up some or all of its activities in France. This trial had been talked about for months here as being a make-or-break affair for Scientology and it began last Monday. The two organisations being tried are the Spiritual Association of the Church of Scientology and the Scientology library, ...
Jun 5, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial: The Psychiatrist's Testimony
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen (Day 3: May 27) Scientology’s techniques abuse the transference process familiar to all therapists, a psychiatrist told the Paris trial of the movement and six of its members. [...]
Jun 4, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial: The Second Plaintiff
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Day 3 (May 27): the second plaintiff in the Paris trial of Scientology told the court how her employer put her under ever-increasing pressure to take the movement’s courses. [...]
Jun 2, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial III
May 31, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial II
May 29, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial I
May 27, 2009
The Debate: Should Scientology be banned? — France 24 (France)More: france24.com
Type: TV
Source:
France 24 (France) The Church of Scientology and six of its French leaders went on trial on Monday on charges of organised fraud that could lead to an outright ban on the organisation in France.
May 26, 2009
Scientology on trial in Paris for 'ruin' of disciples — Daily Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Henry Samuel Source:
Daily Telegraph (UK) The Church of Scientology has been accused of manipulating followers into handing over their savings, in a trial that could see the church banned from France. The church's main centre in France, the ASES-Celebrity Centre, its bookshop and six of its leaders were charged on Monday with organised fraud and illegally prescribing drugs. One former church member claimed she had been psychologically pressured into paying thousands of pounds for lessons, books, drugs and a device called an "electrometre", which the church ...
May 22, 2009
Scientology trial set to begin — Channel 4 (UK)
Type: TV
Author(s):
Emily Reuben Source:
Channel 4 (UK) Are the secrets of Scientology about to be exposed in a French court? More4 News goes to Paris to find out. It sounds like a science, but calls itself a church, while opponents have other names for it. Despite celebrity followers such as John Travolta, the Church of Scientology is viewed with suspicion in some countries. Now the organisation faces a legal battle in France, with a trial starting next week threatening its operations there.
Apr 12, 2009
Suri Cruise to start five-days-a-week Scientology training — Daily Mail (UK)More: dailymail.co.uk
Type: Press
Author(s):
Katie Nicholl Source:
Daily Mail (UK) Tom and Katie Cruise’s doll-like daughter Suri is to be trained in Scientology after her third birthday this week. The Cruises are sending their daughter five days a week to the Church of Scientology’s £6,000-a-year New Village Academy in Los Angeles, launched last year by Tom’s friend, fellow actor Will Smith. It is staffed by trained Scientologists and lists ‘study technology’ as a key curricular focus. ‘The children have a lot of responsibilities from a very young age,’ says a source. ...
Apr 9, 2009
Seizure killed Travolta's son — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Zosia Bielski Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Intense scrutiny has focused on John Travolta's family after the death of the actor's chronically ill 16-year-old son Jett, who died at the family's vacation home at a Grand Bahama resort on Friday.
Yesterday, an undertaker said the death certificate concluded that the cause of death was a seizure, and that the teen's body showed no sign of head trauma despite earlier police reports that he hit his head on a bathtub.
Mr. Travolta, 54, and wife Kelly Preston, 46, were ...
Mar 3, 2009
Ditching the Detox — The Scotsman (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fiona MacGregor Source:
The Scotsman (UK) THERE are some of us who fear that if all the toxins were removed from our body, there'd be very little body left. And before anyone starts with accusations of exaggeration, they should take a look at recent images of Katie Holmes, allegedly toxin-free but not looking good on it. The actress's painfully gaunt and unhealthy appearance, as she reputedly approaches the end of a punishing detox regime, would be enough to make anyone reach for a large Irish coffee to ...
Feb 1, 2009
21 Søndag: Skattekroner havner i Scientology [Unofficial translation: "Narconon: Tax money ends up in Scientology"] — Danish State Television (Denmark)More: dr.dk
Jan 25, 2009
Scientology base denied by officials — Albuquerque JournalMore: abqjournal.com , forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal
Journal Staff Writer
The Second Chance drug rehab program was pitched to lawmakers and the judiciary as the missing link in a broken system that recycled non-violent drug offenders between jails, prisons and the streets.
The past year, it has struggled through money problems and accusations that it is housing ineligible inmates. On Saturday, faced with a city-delivered Jan. 31 deadline to vacate, Second Chance officials moved the last of its inmates out. But throughout the ...
Jan 23, 2009
Devoir d'enquête: "La Scientologie: La secte démasquée" [Part 1] [Unofficial English translation] — RTBF 1 (Belgium)More: Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4
Jan 21, 2009
Hirnwäscher - Wie gefährlich ist Scientology? ["The Brainwashers - How Dangerous Is Scientology?" Unofficial translation] — ARD (Germany)
Jan 7, 2009
Scientologist views on medicine questioned / In aftermath of death of Jett Travolta, 16, critics say church holds profession in negative light — CBS News
Jan 3, 2009
Bahamas using 2 experts for Travolta son autopsy — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chris Gillette Source:
Associated Press Bahamas Using 2 Experts for Travolta Son Autopsy
Bahamas' health minister requests 2 pathologists to oversee autopsy on John Travolta's son
By CHRIS GILLETTE Associated Press Writer
FREEPORT, Bahamas January 3, 2009 (AP)
The Bahamas will use two pathologists to ensure a careful autopsy on John Travolta's son, who died at the actor's vacation home in Grand Bahama, the territory's health minister said Saturday.
Dr. Hubert Minnis told The Associated Press that he decided to use a second specialist to guarantee ...
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