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Dec 2, 2009
Intimidating and violent: defector — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nick O'Malley Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A former Scientology leader says bullying is widespread in the church, writes investigations reporter Nick O'Malley. Coerced abortion, violence, intimidation and demands for ever greater "donations" have become unofficial Church of Scientology policy, beginning at its Florida head office and leaching around the world, the church's most senior defector has said. Marty Rathbun, who until 2004 was the church's second-most powerful man, answering only to the present leader, David Miscavige, said the church leadership was obsessed with destroying dissent and increasing ...
Nov 24, 2009
Infinite Complacency: The Detheridge letters
Nov 23, 2009
Grieving family urges Scientology probe — Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Crystal Ja Source:
Australian Associated Press (AAP) For the three days leading up to soldier Edward McBride's suicide, his family say he was bombarded by telephone calls and texts from Church of Scientology members.
The family believe the church played a major role in his death, but have spent the past two years without answers or recourse.
Now they've urged the federal government to initiate an inquiry into the controversial religious group, under fire following recent allegations of blackmail, sanctioned beatings, forced abortions and financial fraud.
Independent senator ...
Nov 21, 2009
Scientology's dark secrets — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barney Zwartz Source:
The Age (Australia) Senator Nick Xenophon's stunning attack on the Church of Scientology this week has shone a light on a worldwide group many former members accuse of ruining their lives through fear and abuse. SCIENTOLOGISTS lured Dean Detheridge off the street using their tried and tested technique of offering a personality test. He wasn't much interested, but they were extremely skilled and persistent persuaders, and he found he couldn't say no. Seven days later he was on staff in what turned out to ...
Nov 20, 2009
Science or fiction? — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s):
Natasha Bita Source:
The Australian EVEN for a religion started by a science fiction writer, the allegations levelled against the Church of Scientology in federal parliament this week sound stranger than fiction. Blackmail, cover-ups of child abuse, labour camps, embezzlement and coerced abortions are spelled out among the 53 pages of allegations by seven former Scientologists - some of whom had climbed high in the church hierarchy - tabled in the Senate. In what the church has decried as "an outrageous abuse of parliamentary privilege", independent ...
Nov 19, 2009
Former Scientologists allege abuse, intimidation — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Katharine Murphy ,
Misha Schubert Source:
The Age (Australia) FORMER members of the Church of Scientology have made explosive allegations about forced abortions, child abuse and financial extortion, prompting calls for a parliamentary inquiry. Letters tabled by independent senator Nick Xenophon reveal claims of vulnerable people preyed on by a coercive and ruthless organisation that punished and shamed dissenters by physical incarceration, withholding food or intimidation. But the Church of Scientology hit back, arguing the claims came from seven ''disgruntled former members who use hate speech and distorted accounts of ...
Nov 18, 2009
Australian News Coverage [A useful collection of TV media items re. Australian Senator Nick Xenophon] — XenuTV
Nov 17, 2009
Australian Senator Nick Xenophon calls for senate inquiry into Scientology More: Youtube 1 , Youtube 2 , PDF transcript (1.13MB) , Church of Scientology's official response
Type: TV
This is a speech Senator Nick Xenophon gave in the Senate on November 17, 2009 I rise to speak tonight on an issue of utmost seriousness that I believe deserves a great deal of scrutiny by law enforcement agencies and by this parliament. In the past few weeks, I have been contacted by former members of the Church of Scientology after I questioned the tax exemption status the organisation has under our tax laws during an interview on the Seven Network’s ...
Nov 17, 2009
Xenophon hits out at Scientology — Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bonny Symons-Brown Source:
Australian Associated Press (AAP) INDEPENDENT senator Nick Xenophon has accused the Church of Scientology of being a criminal organisation.
The South Australian parliamentarian said he had been contacted by a number of former Scientologists, after he questioned the organisation's tax exempt status in a recent television interview.
"They have provided long and detailed letters to me about the workings of this organisation," he told the Senate.
"These people rightly see themselves as victims of Scientology."
Senator Xenophon said their correspondence implicated the organisation in a ...
Aug 1, 2009
En bref - Entre les griffes de la scientologie [French] — Le Devoir (Québec, Canada)More: unofficial English translation
Type: Press
Source:
Le Devoir (Québec, Canada) Dans un témoignage troublant intitulé Voyage au coeur de la scientologie (Privé, 2009), le musicien d'origine belge Alain Stoffen raconte comment il est tombé, alors qu'il vivait en France dans les années 1980, sous l'emprise de cette organisation.
Attiré là par un ami qui ne lui voulait, bien sûr, que du bien et motivé par l'idée d'imiter son idole, le pianiste de jazz et scientologue Chick Corea, Stoffen s'est inscrit à quelques cours dispensés par cette secte. La suite est une ...
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