13 Senate committee backs Xenophon campaign

In a breakthrough for Senator Nick Xenophon’s campaign against Scientology, an Australian senate committee has backed his call for closer mo...

6 Disconnection

By the early 1990s years of over-work and lack of sleep were taking their toll on Maureen Bolstad’s health. Scientology’s solution was to fo...

12 Xenophon Ups the Ante

Senator Nick Xenophon is calling for a judicial inquiry into Scientology after fresh allegations of abuse from an ABC investigation. Austral...

11 Xenophon wins committee inquiry

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has moved a step forward in his campaign for a review of Scientology’s tax status in Australia: an inquiry...

17 Tracing it Back to Source

Hana Eltringham Whitfield’s Speech Violence and abuse in Scientology can be traced right back to the founder, L. Ron Hubbard, said a former ...

The LA Presser 3: Laura DeCrescenzo's Speech

Laura Decrescenzo described how she was recruited into the Sea Org at just 12 years old – and how when she fell pregnant aged 17 she was pre...

LA Press Conference 2: Jeff Hawkins' Speech

Jeff Hawkins, a 35-veteran of Scientology, focussed on the question what draws people to the movement – and why, despite the abuse they suff...

LA Press Conference 1: Marc Headley's Speech

Marc Headley spelled out the punishing schedule to which Sea Org members were subjected – and explained why people could not just up and lea...

The LA Press Conference

Six former members of Scientology’s elite Sea Org cadre joined forces in Los Angeles to denounce the violence and abuse inflicted on its mos...

1 The Hendersons' Story

As he lay dying of cancer in a California hospital, Allan Henderson agreed to talk about the devastating effect disconnection had on his fam...

Disconnection: an introduction

Disconnection, which forces members to cut off contact with anyone deemed to be an enemy of the movement, is arguably the single most destru...

10 Peta O'Brien's Letter II

As well as medical neglect, Peta O’Brien’s letter told of a hostile working environment, an arbitrary internal justice system and a culture ...

9 Peta O'Brien's Letter: Medical Neglect

Medical neglect in Scientology was so serious that staff members with cancer were left to die untreated at their post, according to one lett...

8 Carmel Underwood's Letter II

Pressure to abort, child exploitation and physical abuse: Carmel Underwood had witnessed enough abuse over the years to have serious doubts ...