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Scientology Drug Rehab Program’s Newest Victim: A New York 15-Year-Old

From the Rainbow Canyon website

Scientology’s drug rehab facilities have been much in the news lately for several lawsuits that have questioned the way these “Narconon” programs treat adults who go to them seeking treatment for their addictions. Now, a Narconon center in Nevada is being sued by a family over the experiences of []

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Belgium Prosecuting Scientology as a Criminal Organization [UPDATED]

Oh Belgium, how we love you

UPDATE: See more analysis from journalist Jonny Jacobsen after the jump. The latest: Jonny’s thoughts on the Belgian investigating magistrate, Michel Claise.

We sure picked a great day to go for a long hike.

Turns out, minutes after we left for our day-long stroll, we received an e-mail from []

Scientology Leader David Miscavige: Getting Desperate?

Nothing could match the revulsion we felt yesterday at the mass murder of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut.

But there was something else that made the bile rise in our throat yesterday.

Marty Rathbun, at his blog, pointed out that one of the anonymous attack web sites operated by the Church of Scientology has begun putting up []

DOX: Florida Officials Fight Attempt to Hide Drug Rehab’s Scientology Connections

Kurt Feshbach: Shhh, he’s a wealthy Scientologist

Officials in Hernando County, Florida aren’t backing down in a lawsuit brought by a wealthy Scientologist who wants to expand a Narconon drug rehab site against the wishes of local residents.

The Narconon center’s landowner has asked federal Judge James D. Whittemore that the facility’s connection to Scientology, []

HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATING SCIENTOLOGY FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING

For at least eight months, the US Department of Homeland Security has been investigating allegations of human trafficking in the Church of Scientology, TONYORTEGA.ORG has learned.

Since at least the spring, agents with Homeland Security working out of its Tampa office have been interviewing former members of the church who have information about the way children []

DOX: Autopsy Report of Scientology President’s Son, Alexander Jentzsch

Alexander Jentzsch, a “Middle Eastern” man?

That’s one of the odd things we found in the autopsy report of the son of Church of Scientology President Heber Jentzsch, who was found dead on July 3 at the home of his in-laws.

We reported earlier what the Los Angeles Department of Coroner told us, that Jentzsch died []

Ken Dandar in Federal Court Today — And Loses Again

UPDATE: JUDGE COVINGTON AGAIN DECLINES TO STEP IN ON KEN DANDAR’S BEHALF. More on our afternoon update below

Ken Dandar gets his second chance today to convince federal Judge Virginia Covington in Tampa, Florida that his civil rights are being violated by a conspiracy between Florida’s state courts and the Church of Scientology.

Dandar is asking Covington []

Lisa McPherson Day: Is Florida Ashamed Yet?

Last year on this day, we wrote this:

On December 5, 1995, a 36-year-old woman perished while several people were taking her to a hospital in Florida.

Within a few years, the mysterious and strange circumstances around the death of Lisa McPherson — who had been a Scientologist since the age of 18 — had the Church []

Scientology’s Master Spies

For 24 years, they followed one man for the Church of Scientology. Then, for just over a single day, they came in from the cold.

By Tony Ortega

[Paul Marrick reunites with his old boss, Marty Rathbun]

 This week, we learned that a lawsuit filed against the Church of Scientology by two of its former private investigators was []

Fun New Video, But Is This IndieGogo Project Headed for Legal Trouble?

This new video by two people who call themselves “Pete” and “Hannah” popped up yesterday. It’s an awfully fun mashup of Scientology and old school video gaming, and the production values are very high.

The Church of Scientology is very clearly mentioned in it, and the church’s practices are solidly parodied.

But are Pete and Hannah pushing []