Anti-cultists persuaded prosecutors to reintroduce discredited mental manipulation theories by interpreting anti-prostitution and forced labor statutes.
Religious Liberty
裁判所が教義を解釈するとき：統一教会に対する決定に関する日本人学者の懸念
1992年に教会を離れた学者が、家族連合を解散させた決定が教会の神学を誤って解釈したことを非難する。
Pakistan Blocks Ahmadi Muslims From Eid Prayers
Police and legal bodies coordinated the crackdown. India denounced Pakistan’s treatment of Ahmadis at the UN as a form of Islamophobia.
Pakistan: How Judges Protect Forced Conversions to Islam and Child Marriage
In the case of Maria Bibi, the Federal Constitutional Court declared a child an adult, a minor a wife, and a conversion a passport out of the law.
When Courts Interpret Doctrine: A Japanese Scholar’s Concerns About the Unification Church Decision
An academic who left the church in 1992 denounces the misinterpretation of its theology in the verdict that dissolved the Family Federation.
France, Famille Missionnaire de Notre-Dame: When Ninety Percent Is Not Enough
Despite broad acquittals, the lone conviction for “psychological subjection” risks turning France’s justice system into an arbiter of acceptable spirituality.
China’s Battle for the Dead: Guangdong Villagers Oppose Crematorium Project, Clash with Police
Residents of Shuikou Town protest for days as authorities deploy riot police and tighten control. It is another chapter in a “war” about burial practices in rural China.
統一教会に対する東京高裁の決定 2. 洗脳論の亡霊
本決定の重要なテーマの一つは、「カルト」が「精神操作」によってその信者を騙すという、すでに否定された疑似科学的理論である。
The Tokyo High Court Unification Church Decision. 6. Who Will Protect the Believers?
The court assures us that individual devotees will not be discriminated against. The reality is different.
The Tokyo High Court Unification Church Decision. 5. Violating International Law
Restricting freedom of religion or belief on the grounds of “social acceptability” and “public welfare” is prohibited by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.