freedom of conscience

RE: Follow up of Rapporteur’s visit to France (18-29 September 2005)

Dear Mrs. Jahangir:

I am writing to you on behalf of CAP (Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience – Coordination of Associations and Individuals for Freedom of Conscience), an association created in 2000 to [...]

On 16 March, the American House of Representatives adopted with 412 votes against 1 a resolution condemning persecutions undergone by Falun Gong practitioners, a Chinese movement of buddhist and taoist inspiration. The text demands from the government of Popular China « an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners.”

Adfi Nord’s President, Charline Delporte, continues her crusade against new religious movements. Indeed, on 18 March, in an article in La Voix du Nord, she denounces a lecture that was to be held by the Graam movement, in a venue in Boulogne sur Mer.
In this article, Adfi Nord’s President says: « we are facing a [...]

Who ordered a police crackdown on a peaceful spiritual group in Saône and Loire?
HRWF (21.01.2010) - Website: www.hrwf.net - Email: info@hrwf.net -  On 7 January at 9 am, about 20 law enforcement officers rushed into the Domaine de Chardenoux, a spiritual centre located in Bruailles (Saône and Loire), and searched the whole compound until 6 [...]

FRANCE
The antisect movements and money: Why not a parliamentary inquiry commission?
By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers
HRWF (08.12.2009) - Website: http://www.hrwf.net - Email: info@hrwf.net - At a colloquium organized by MIVILUDES (1) in Lyon on 27 November 2009, Mrs Catherine Picard, UNADFI (2) president, deplored the decrease in public funding of her antisect movement.
The income [...]

Georges Fenech is at the source of a vast hoax with the accents of Torquemada.

It is interesting to note that he knowingly initiates an investigation into MPs who have simplified the penal code whereas, according to the internet site of the French Parliament, on October 7th 2008, during the session held at 4 :15 PM, his friend, MP Philippe Vuilque, member of the council of orientation of the Miviludes, was present during the debate among the MPs who have voted the text.

Whom are we kidding ? Why such an uproar ? Is Georges Fenech going to ask for an investigation on those who have obtained that France adheres to the European convention of human rights because it protects religious freedom ?

This whole campaign orchestrated by Miviludes violates article 6 of the European convention of human rights and article 11 of the universal declaration of human rights on the presumption of innocence.

***LA CROIX
30/07/2009
Joseph Maila explains the final purpose of his mission, at the head of the Pole Religions, Quai d’Orsay, and its functioning.
You lead the new « Pole Religions », created on 1st of June within the direction of analysis of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. What does it means?
JM: This is the result of an initiative of [...]

Le Monde – Saturday 30 May 2009
The sect, fraud, and the prosecutor
This trial which started on the 25th of May in Paris is a test to find out whether France remains especially watchful on sectarian abuses or if it has gone off-guard.  One can remember the ambiguous statement on the President’s chief of staff, minimized [...]

Fight against sects: the orientations of Georges Fenech continue to generate worry
Le Monde 2009 04 06
Six months after his posting as head of Miviludes, he should receive in the coming days his official battle plan from the Prime Minister who has direct authority upon him.
If he didn’t yet get the last arbitrations, the former MP [...]

TITLE : Infringement by the State into the evaluation of the legitimity of religious beliefs

Translation of the reply dated March 5, 2009 to a written question by Senator Masson