Mexico's Cri Cri hijacked

Scientology has hijacked Cri-Cri the singing cricket, a character known and loved by generations of Mexican children. Among the nonentities ...

Belgian Prosecutors make their move

Federal prosecutors in Belgium have charged Scientology's operation there and two leading executives with fraud, extortion and other off...

Narconon is "Casualty Contact"

Internal documents make clear that Narconon is a variation on “casualty contact”, a recruitment policy Hubbard developed for Scientology in ...

Narconon: an introduction

Narconon is a rehabilitation programme for addicts run on a system devised by Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Experts say it is b...

And Jenna makes three...

Jenna Hill, the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige, is to publish a memoir of her life in the movement. If it's anything like t...

Kyle Brennan: Arguments on appeal

UPDATE: On September 19 the appeal court rejected plaintiff's application, affirming the district court's dismissal of the action. M...

Headleys' supporters rally round

-- UPDATE: the appeal reached its target total on Tuesday, Sept 18 -- Marc and Claire Headley have refused an offer from Scientology to info...

Reviewing the Headley ruling

The U.S. Appeal court's rejection of the Headley lawsuits against Scientology is not carte blanche for future abuse, says the attorney w...

Appeal Court rejects Headleys' lawsuits

A US appeal court has thrown out lawsuits brought by former Sea Org members over the abuse they suffered inside Scientology. But the ruling ...

Atack Reloaded

After years of silence Jon Atack, who literally wrote the book on Scientology, made a brief but effective television appearance in May – and...

Scientology Cries Foul II

Scientology's campaign to present its Paris convictions as a miscarriage of justice betrays the movement's conspiratorial mindset. S...

Scientology Cries Foul I

Scientology is arguing that the magistrate who prepared the organised fraud case against it was “indoctrinated”: the latest in a series of b...

Maureen Bolstad's Speech

Maureen Bolstad described her years imprisoned inside Scientology’s punishment programme – and how the movement’s disconnection policy had c...

The Fallout

Leading opponents of Scientology say the Paris appeal court convictions of two of its organisations mark the beginning of the end for the mo...

Now We Are Three

When Infinite Complacency launched three years ago, mainstream news coverage of Scientology consisted mainly of celebrity gossip and jokes a...

Brennan case goes to appeal

Did Scientology’s dogmatic hatred of psychiatry contribute to the death of a vulnerable, 20-year-old? That is the central question in a laws...

The Headleys on Appeal II

Scientology’s attorney argued that the Headleys could not argue psychological and social coercion based on their upbringing in the Church:...

The Headleys on appeal I

A church cannot be exempt from sanctions for human trafficking and forced labor, a lawyer for two former Scientologists told a U.S. appeal...

The Headleys go to Appeal

Two lawsuits filed by former Scientologists go to appeal on Thursday after being dismissed by a district court: ministerial exception will b...

The Appeal Court Judgment

The Court of Appeal in Paris confirmed the convictions of the two Scientology organisations for organised fraud, a decision which some say i...

Appeal Trial IV: the Big Walk-out

On the sixth day of Paris trial on appeal of Scientology, the court rejected the movement’s final bid to exclude the counter-cult group UNAD...

Paris Appeal Trial III

The judge in Scientology’s Paris appeal trial deferred a decision on French counter-cult group UNADFI’s status at the trial, effectively all...

Paris Appeal Trial II

Scientology’s lawyers took three hours to attack counter-cult group UNADFI’s bid to be admitted as a plaintiff in the Paris appeal trial. Te...

The Paris Appeal Trial I

 Scientology had  vowed to expose the case against them as empty. In court however, the procedural motions launched by their  lawyers' d...

Supreme Court backs ministerial exception

Churches are exempt from employment law requirements regarding their ministers, says the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case that has implications...