E/CN.4/1995/91 page 12 According to information received, persons and organizations associated with Scientology have been blacklisted and subjected to an economic boycott. The following cases were brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur: In May 1993, Chick Corea, the jazz musician, was reportedly invited to take part in a concert on the occasion of the World Athletics Championship at Stuttgart. The Government of Baden-Württemberg is said to have cancelled the concert after learning that Chick Corea was a Scientologist. In March 1992, the administrative director of the State capital Düsseldorf is said to have distributed a list naming firms employing Scientologists and in particular the Director-General of Düsseldorf Fair Ltd. In March 1993, it is alleged that the city of Düsseldorf published an order against the Director-General of the Kempe Ltd. real estate company and cancelled the right of Mr. and Mrs. Kempe to recruit apprentices to learn the trade of estate agent because of their religion. In 1993, in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Werner Nolte, a businessman, was reportedly subjected to a media campaign against his company and his family because of his membership of the Church of Scientology. His partners later broke off their trade relations with the company. In June 1993, a German television presenter, Thomas Gottschalk, is reported to have been wrongly accused of being a Scientologist. Because of false publicity claiming that he was a Scientologist, he announced publicly that he was not, that he had nothing to do with the Church and that he would break off all relations with a friend who was a Scientologist. In December 1993, it is reported that three businessmen bought space in a local daily newspaper Husumer Nachrichten to proclaim ’We’ve had enough!’ and that they ’had never had and would never have any relations with the Scientology movement or its organizations ...’. The article is stated to have been signed by directors of local companies and the local pastor. At the end of the article there is said to have been a warning that anyone describing these businessmen as Scientologists or accusing them of being in contact with Scientology or other sects would be sued for ’libel’. On 19 August 1993 the director of Volksfürsorge, the public social welfare organization, allegedly informed a trainee, Oliver Freitag, that he would not be employed because he was a member of the Church of Scientology. The Special Rapporteur was also informed that there had been an increase in acts and threats of violence. The following cases were reported: