GERMANY

Germany Isolated Itself From the Democratic Consensus on Religious Freedom

For nearly three decades, Germany claimed democratic authority for a campaign of surveillance, blacklisting and discrimination against Scientologists.

For Decades, International Bodies Warned Germany Over Its Treatment of Scientologists

Germany was not protecting democracy by excluding Scientologists. It was violating the principles democracy exists to protect.

After 30 Years of Failure, Germany’s OPC Still Refuses to Admit Scientologists Were Never the Threat It Claimed

Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution has now ended nearly thirty years of nationwide Scientology surveillance without establishing the extremist threat it repeatedly used to justify the campaign.

Scientologists Speak Out on the Human Cost of Germany’s 30-Year Surveillance Campaign

While the allegations never materialized, the damage to innocent people was real.

Thirty Years of Surveillance Ends Without Finding the Threat Germany Claimed Existed

History has shown the danger that arises when governments and institutions systematically distort the beliefs of a minority religion in order to justify exceptional treatment against it.

STAND Supports German Law Curbing Digital Hate Speech

Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAND) appreciates that the German federal government has taken upon itself to more forcefully curtail hate speech on digital platforms, as reported in the New York Times.

STAND Supports Baha’i German religious pluralism conference

Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAND), is in strong support of the German religious pluralism conference organized by members of the Baha’i faith in Germany and the Anne Frank Foundation, with the German government’s State Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Integration.

Lawsuit Charges Illegal Dismissal Based on Religion

The former Personnel Administrator of Munich’s House of Art, a 22-year veteran of the museum, has sued the institution for wrongful dismissal for terminating him based solely on suspicion about his personal religious beliefs and religious association, charging religious discrimination...