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 [...]

MIVILUDE’s last report reveals that on July 15, 2009, M. Fenech invited a delegation of the Chinese embassy at MIVILUDES’s quarters.
It is not the first time that French « anti-cult » politics stirs the interest of Chinese authorities. Indeed, we recall M. Alain Vivien’s trip to China, at the time he presided the now defunct [...]

The strange silence of MIVILUDES and antisect groups about paedophilia in the Catholic Church
The European Parliament Platform for Secularism in Politics urges Barroso to address the issue
HRWF (31.03.2010) - Are MIVILUDES and antisect groups applying double standards or instrumentalizing their respective mandates to cover up a hidden agenda: the fight against specific religious groups and [...]

Contrary to the current Unadfi president Catherine Picard, the former president Jeanine Tavernier condemned the police search done on 7 January in the premises of Sky Earth, which stirred up people.
According to the site « Sapientia-portail.net », she would have stated: « The main concern during my mandate as UNADFI president, from 1993 to 2001, [...]

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 [...]

***Lyons, April 28, 2000
Claude is a Protestant. The freedoms of his Evangelical Association are being more and more restricted due to the growing climate of fear of “cults” that is spreading in France today and affecting many religions groups.
I represent the CLEF Association [Lyons Evangelization and Training Circle], which is affiliated with the French Evangelical [...]

Denial of access to spiritual assistance by Jehovah’s Witnesses in prison is discriminatory
The misuse of the parliamentary report on cults once more denounced
HRWF (29.03.2010) - In its decision nr 2010-43 of 22 February 2010, HALDE (The High Authority Fighting against Discrimination and for Equality) has concluded that the denial of spiritual assistance to Jehovah’s Witnesses [...]

One more case of misuse of the parliamentary report on cults and discrimination in total impunity
Human Rights Without Frontiers urges France’s Minister of Justice and Minister of the Interior to send a circular letter to the institutions under their authority forbidding the use of the parliamentary black list of so-called cults to deny the full [...]

The burqa issue: the silence of Miviludes and antisect activists
By Regis Dericquebourg for Human Rights Without Frontiers
HRWF (26.01.2009) / Website: www.hrwf.net - Email: info@hrwf.net:
Benoît Hamon, a member of the French National Assembly, has “regretted that in the debate on the burqa in the Republic there is no discussion about the movements backing this sort of [...]