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Over the last two years, bomb threats are reported to have been
made against virtually every Scientology mission and church:
Hamburg (3), Hanover (2), Munich (2), Ulm (2), Frankfurt and
Düsseldorf.
On 4 June 1993, it is reported that windows of the building rented
to the Church of Scientology in Hamburg and cars in its parking lot
were vandalized and covered in paint.
On 12 June 1993, the front of a Scientologist’s house was allegedly
daubed with the inscription ’Scientologist pig’.
In February 1994, the window of a Scientology mission was
reportedly broken by a stone wrapped in a pamphlet which stated
that Scientology would be ’destroyed’.
On 24 March 1994, a Scientologist lawyer, Mr. Wilhelm Bluemel, is
said to have received a fax stating ’Watch out, your time is coming
soon!’ and anonymous telephone calls.
The children of Scientologists are also reported to have been
discriminated against:
On 27 March 1994, the two children of a Scientologist,
Lydia Walter, aged 6 and 3, were allegedly the victims of
discriminatory acts at the local kindergarten. At the initiative
of the group called ’Sect Info Essen’, the governing board is said
to have specifically requested that there should be no contact with
Scientologists. The children were reportedly banned by the rest of
the school and their parents informed that the children would be
sent home unless they signed a sworn written statement that they
would not ’promote’ Scientology orally, in writing or by any other
means. The contract was also to state that their children were not
’welcome’ in the kindergarten. A poster in front of the school is
said to have read ’We don’t want Scientology’ and the school
allegedly announced that it would hold an anti-Scientology
demonstration with the group ’Sect Info Essen’ in April 1994."
Saudi Arabia
In a communication of 18 August 1994 addressed to the Saudi Government,
the Special Rapporteur transmitted the following information:
"The Special Rapporteur has been informed that, since 1990,
hundreds of men, women and children have been arrested and imprisoned,
the majority of them without charge or trial, simply for the peaceful
expression of their religious beliefs.
During the past few years, a policy of discrimination against
religious minorities, and against Christians and Shiite Muslims in
particular, is said to have been gradually introduced.