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| The Magnus Hirschfeld Centre for Human Rights | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Crosswicks House, Post Office Box 1974 Bloomfield, New Jersey USA 07003 Tele/Facsimile: (862)823-1767 E-Mail: HumanRights@post.com |
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| POLAND - VERY URGENT FREEDOM OF OPINION & RELIGION; FREEDOM FROM DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF CREED; RIGHT TO PRIVACY |
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| Roman Catholic Church authorities throughout Poland - in complicity with Polish law enforcement agencies - have engaged in ongoing and severe harrassment, intimidation and attempts to silence practitioners and teachers of what are perceived as "alien" non-Christian religions, specifically Buddhism, Hinduism and - although it is not a religious form of expression per se - Yoga. Courts and Justice Ministry officials have repeatedly and illegally refused to register such groups as religious institutions and have even charged one Buddhist leader - Ryszard Matuszewski - with serious criminal offenses and attempts at violence. The facts of the case of Ryszard Matuszewski are thus: |
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