by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Nov 14, 2012 | news
Between 11 September 2009 and 12 May 2012 there have been 1,372 incidents where the rights of individual believers have been violated. Law enforcement officials have detained 1,278 believers, carried out 136 searches of homes and houses of worship, and disrupted 17 religious services. Individual citizens opposed to Jehovah’s Witnesses have committed 111 acts of violence against at least 208 Jehovah’s Witnesses and committed 85 acts of vandalism against their places of worship. The authorities have done little or nothing to prevent or to punish these criminal acts.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 24, 2012 | news
Human Rights Without Frontiers recommends to the French authorities to put an end to religious discrimination in prison and to allow detainees to have access to JW chaplains HRWF (17.09.2012) – For many years, the French authorities have denied the...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 5, 2012 | Council of Europe
On 6 September 2012, Rudy Salles, a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will present a report on « The protection of minors against sectarian influence ». A year ago, Rudy Salles, a member of the French National Assembly, was appointed at the PACE as rapporteur to draft such a report. This issue has been pushed for a long time by French anti-cult groups and MIVILUDES (Inter-Ministerial Mission of Vigilance and Fight against Sectarian Drifts).
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Aug 31, 2012 | news
In the Miviludes 2009 report, Georges Fenech, as President of the Miviludes, did a full review of the problems that could have occurred in EU countries regarding children and so called “sects”. Results of the review made clear that no real problem existed in Europe...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Aug 31, 2012 | news
Under the cover of fighting “sects” minority faiths are widely discredited in the media and often their right to answer is simply scoffed. The word “sect” has already proved discriminatory in History; it has no legal definition and is charged with a strong emotional...