Subversion Tech mister-info.com: Scientology branch in Germany drops legal fight against government surveillance | mister-info.com: Scientology branch in Germany drops legal fight against government surveillance |
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German branch of the Church of Scientology dropped its legal battle
against government surveillance of its operations, according to a
statement released by the organization on Tuesday. In an April ruling,
the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court in Münster
refused to consider an appeal made by the Church of Scientology to a
February court decision sanctioning the monitoring of Scientology by
Germany's intelligence agencies.
The agency which monitors Scientology in Germany is called the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Germany's domestic intelligence agency), and has had the Church of Scientology under surveillance in Germany since 1997. The February ruling by the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court stated: "There are concrete indications that Scientology's activities are to implement Scientology's program in Germany and to expand more and more Scientology's principles in government, economy and society". [...]In a post Wednesday to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, Scientology critic Raymond Hill commented on Scientology's recent actions, asking: "Scared that too much public awareness would be brought on its internal documents?" Hill runs the website "Scientology Critical Directory" at www.xenu-directory.net . Complete article: http://www.mister-info.com/... |
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