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Article 4 requires all States to take effective measures to prevent and eliminate discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief in the recognition, exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms in all fields of civil, economic, political, social and cultural life.

The Federal Republic of Germany is also a participating state in the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). OSCE countries have pledged:

[T]o commit themselves to take appropriate and proportionate measures to protect persons or groups who may be subject to threats or acts of discrimination, hostility or violence as a result of their racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious identity, and to protect their property....¹³⁶

The German government has not only failed to fulfill its obligations under these specific instruments, it has initiated and encouraged a systematic policy of discrimination amounting to religious apartheid directed at German nationals who are associated with the religion of Scientology.

Translation:

INSECTS — NO THANK YOU!

Cover of a booklet published by the Young Union, the youth organization of the CDU, and promoted by the Secretary General of the CDU, Peter Hintze.


The 1994 report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance to the United Nations Human Rights Commission detailed case after case of documented human rights violations against Scientologists in Germany. The entire Report on Germany concerned religious intolerance directed at Scientologists.

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