2002 Leipzig Human Rights Award
(originally the "2000 Alternative Charlemagne Award")
Alain Vivien receives the Human Rights Award of the
European-American
Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the USA
The European-American Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious
Freedom
in the USA is involved in human rights and religious freedom in the USA
and worldwide,
and is engaged in the discussion in particular about new totalitarian
organizations.
In doing so it lets itself be guided by the stance taken by 17 million
Americans
in 1950 when they signed a pledge
to the Berlin Liberty Bell:
"I believe
in the sacredness and dignity of the individual. I believe that all men
derive
the right to freedom equally from God. I pledge to resist aggression and
tyranny
wherever they appear on earth."
We are dismayed that,
for the last few years, the Scientology Organization (SO) has managed to
exert
its influence in US foreign politics. The SO, responsible for the 17 days
of anguish
immediately preceding the death of
Lisa
McPherson (USA), for the financial ruin of the Aigner
family (Germany) and for the tragic death of Patrice
Vic (France), tries to inflict damage upon the European-American
friendship
for which we have all been working so hard in the past decades. As
European friends
of the United States of America and or as US citizens, we are concerned
about
the attacks by the Scientology organization on the lives and human dignity
of
not only its own members, but also of its critics.
2002 Human Rights Award for Minister
Alain Vivien
In Leipzig,
the city of the East German civil rights movement, we will bestow the
Human
Rights Award of the European-American Citizens Rights Committee for Human
Rights
and Religious Freedom in the USA to Minister Alain Vivien, the third such
person
to receive this distinction.
Minister Alain Vivien
has been dealing with the problems of totalitarian cults and sects since
1983.
That is when National Assembly Representative Alain Vivien, as
commissioned by
Minister President Pierre Mouroy, submitted the first situation report
about this
problematic area. He also worked to produce the first French Enquete
report on
sects and totalitarian organizations in 1993, and, since 1998, has been
the president
of the Mission Interministerielle pour la lutte contre les sectes for the
Prime
Minister of the Republic of France (MILS).
Alain Vivien recognized
the multi-dimensionality of the problem early on, and, in his thorough
analysis,
he clearly outlined the threat from totalitarian organizations and
movements to
the liberty of the individual, as well as to free society as a whole.
As President of MILS,
he has dedicated himself to seeing to it that France, the country of human
rights,
recognizes the new threats to human rights, and has interceded on behalf
of the
freedom of the individual and of the democratic society for the necessity
of state
protection against totalitarian misuse by private organizations.
He has also been involved
with the fates of those affected by destructive groups, has worked toward
the
legal, organizational and political shoring up of their human rights, and
toward
the protection of victims of Scientology and similar organizations in the
creation
and implementation of a legal framework for the French National
Assembly.
In doing this he has
demonstrated courage, not only in using his expert knowledge to cope with
the
intense political pressure, both domestic and foreign, but also in using
his personal
dedication to publicly debate the new totalitarianism of the Scientology
Organization
(SO). For this prize winner he has been heavily targeted by the
Scientology Organization
and its allies.
With his active involvement
in a society susceptible to the totalitarianism of Scientology
organization, and
with his involvement with its former members who have found themselves
persecuted
and attacked by the SO, Alain Vivien has duly demonstrated merit in the
area of
human rights, especial in the freedoms of opinion and of religion.
This award is also
granted in recognition of the important and successful work done by all
the MILS
staff, not leaving out the work done by the French National Assembly,
which worked
through all party differences to enact legislation for the protection of
human
rights against the new dangers posed by totalitarianism.
At the same time, this
award is also a gesture of our appreciation to politicians on either side
of the
Atlantic for their efforts to put a stop to the human rights violations
committed
by the Scientology organization in both Europe and in the USA.
The Award Committee:
Tabula Gratulatoria:
With our names we support the presentation of the human rights award
from the
European-American Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious
Freedom to
Minister Alain Vivien, and we lend him our wholehearted
congratulations:
- H. Altfeld, Fürstenberg, Deutschland
- James Beebe, former Cult Awareness Network (CAN) staff member,
Northbrook,
Illinois, USA
- David Bird,
Programmer,
Birmingham, England
- Elisabeth Bonacker, Nahrendorf, Deutschland
- Mark Bunker, videographer, Derry,
New
Hampshire, USA
- Ida J. Camburn,
Disconnected
mother, Hemet, California, USA
- Ingolf
Christiansen,
Beauftragter für Weltanschauungsfragen, Ev.-luth. Landeskirche
Hannovers
Göttingen, Deutschland
- Tory Christman, Burbank,
California, USA, Ex-Scientologist (in for 30 years), Educator, Writer, and
Freedom
Activist
- Rob Clark, York, PA, USA
- Luise Daszenies, Lehrerin, BI "Fürstenberger Dialog", Fü
rstenberg/Havel,
Deutschland
- Ingrid Dietrich, ev. Pfr., Leipzig, Deutschland
- Jeta Eggers, Information-
analyst
(IT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Ellen Fink,
Polizeibeamtin,
Monschau (NRW), Deutschland
- Ute Gandow, Krankengymnastin, Berlin, Deutschland
- Anita Gogolla, Marine Mammal Trainer, Clearwater, Florida
- Elke Gorf,
Aufklärungsgruppe
Krokodil, Weinstadt, Deutschland
- Barbara Graham, Digital
Animator,
San Diego, California USA
- Hans-Michael Hanert, Pfarrer (Ev. Kirchengemeinde und Ö
kumenische Studentenarbeit
Frankfurt(O)), Deutschland
- H. Keith Henson, Political
Refugee,
Electronics Engineer, Toronto, Canada
- Rüdiger Hintze, Jurist, Hamburg, Deutschland
- Ralph Hofman, Dipl. Soz.-Päd. Student, EBI-Sachsen
e.V., Lessingstrasse 7, 04109 Leipzig, Deutschland
- Ilse Hruby, Autorin, Ö
sterreich
- Prof. Dr. med Irmgard Oepen, Marburg, Deutschland
- Ulrike Kindler, Hamburg,
Deutschland
- Helke
Koulakiotis,
Aufklärungsgruppe Krokodil der EBIS e.V. Baden-Württemberg,
Deutschland
- Arnaldo Lerma, Citizens Against
Corruption,
Arlingon, Virginia, USA
- Caroline Letkeman,
Educator,
Chilliwack, B. C. Canada
- Arel Lucas, Archivist, UCSF Library, San Francisco, USA
- Klaus Maßmann, Pastor, Deutschland, Niedersachsen, Ev.ref.
Gemeinde
Osnabrück
- Sabine Mierisch, Journalistin, Berlin, Deutschland
- Robert Minton, Philanthropist,
Boston,
USA
- Sue Mullaney, medical
transcriptionist,
San Diego, CA, USA
- Winfried Müller, Verleger,
Jena,
Deutschland
- Margrit Passow, Kordinatorin, Berlin, Deutschland
- Scott
Perry, Optical
Company Manufacturing CEO, Palm Harbor, Florida, USA
- Mark Plummer, writer,
Austin, Texas,
USA
- Dr. Dr. hc. Hanna Renate-Laurien, ehem. Berliner Bürgermeisterin
und
Präsidentin des Abgeordnetenhauses a.D., Berlin, Deutschland
- Renate
Rennebach,
MdB (Member of the Bundestag), Berlin, Deutschland
- Mag. theol. Matthias Roser, Berlin. Deutschland
- Gisela Rusch, Berlin, Deutschland
- Helmut Schmidt, Verwaltungsleiter, Berlin, Deutschland, Vorsitzender
der
Eltern- und Betroffeneninitiative gegen
psychische
Abhängigkeit - für Geistige Freiheit (EBI) Berlin-Brandenburg
- Birgit Schneider, Religionspädagogin, Oelsnitz/V., Deutschland
- Karl Hermann Schneider, Studienrat, Muenchen, Deutschland
- Heiko Schulz, ev. Pfr. / Beauftragter für ev.
Religionsunterricht, Berlin,
Deutschland
- Dr. med. Kerstin Schumann, Ärztin, Initiative "Fü
rstenberger Dialog",
Fürstenberg, Deutschland
- Jane Scott, Consultant, Los Angeles, USA
- Jörg Stolzenberger, Aufklärungsgruppe
Krokodil, Weinstadt, Deutschland
- Joachim Thewes,
Göttingen,
Deutschland
- Jens Tingleff,
Electronics
Engineer, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Daniela Weber, Sachbearbeiterin, Berlin, Deutschland
- Stephanie Werner, Vorsitzende
EBI-Sachsen
e.V., Lessingstrasse 7, Leipzig, Deutschland
- Peter Widmer,
3802 Waldegg
BE, Schweiz
- Lawrence Wollersheim, Director of
F.A.C.T.Net,
Inc., Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Ekkehart Ziegelschmid, Pfarrer i.R., Kurort Weinböhla/ Sachsen,
Deutschland
- Dr. Richard Ziegert, Beauftragter für Weltanschauungsfragen,
Ludwigshafen,
Deutschland
- Doris Müller, Dipl.-Sozialarbeiterin, Walldorf, Deutschland
- Jan-Pieter Rau, Dipl-Verwaltungswirt (FH), Stadtverordneter,
Rheinsberg,
Deutschland
- Andrea Küpker, Aufklärung und Beratung, Damme, Deutschland
- Roland Hartig, Redakteur Lichtblick-Newsletter,
Rostock, Deutschland
- Dr. Hans-Jürgen Ruppert, Pfarrer, Bad Wildbad, Deutschland
- Lady Daphne Vane, FAIR,
London, United
Kingdom
- Karin Paetow-Froese, Arbeitskreis Sekten e.V. Herford
- Rüdiger Froese, Arbeitskreis Sekten e.V. Herford
- Christian Szurko, Director Dialog Centre UK, London
- Gisela Tiede, Vorsitzende des Vereins
Berliner Schulsekretärinnen, Berlin, Deutschland
- Liselotte Wenzelburger-Mack, Landesvorsitzende der EBIS e.V. Baden-
Württemberg,
Trägerin des Bundesverdienstkreuzes am Bande, Großbettlingen,
Deutschland
- Pfr. Heribert Süttmann, Evangelische Kirche in Berlin-
Brandenburg, Berlin,
Deutschland
- Dr.med.F.-Wolfgang Bambas, Frauenarzt, Wahlstedt, Deutschland
- Pfarrer Eduard Trenkel, Kassel, Deutschland
- Bezirksstadtrat Dieter Hapel, stellv. Bezirksbürgermeister von
Tempelhof-Schöneberg,
Berlin, Deutschland
- Dr. Hans-Peter Bartels MdB
,
Mitglied der Verteidigungsaussschusses des Deutschen Bundestages, Kiel und
Berlin,
Deutschland
- Christoph Polster, geschäftsf. Pfarrer Ev. Kirchengemeinde St.
Nikolai,
Cottbus, Deutschland
- Dr. Justus Werdin, Pfarrer, Greiffenberg, Deutschland
- Walter Schütte, Journalist, München, Deutschland
- Christa Lagemann, Lehrerin, Steinfurt, Deutschland
- Uta Stephan, Rentnerin, Berlin, Deutschland
- Thomas Günzel, Pfarrer, Leipzig, Deutschland
- Struck, Rüdiger, AK Sekten Herford, Deutschland
- Karin Struck, Hausfrau, Deutschland
- Harry Gillmann, Berlin, Deutschland
- Prof. Dr. Gottfried Küenzlen, München, Deutschland
- Thomas C. Padgett, Lakeville,
Massachusetts, USA
- Jutta
Lockau, Mitglied der Kirchenleitung der
Evangelischen
Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin, Deutschland
- Dr. Károly Tóth, Bischof (em), Präsident des
Ökumenischen
Studienzentrums, Budapest, Ungarn
- Charlotte Wehrspaun, Dipl.-Soz., Berlin, Deutschland
- Pfr. Horst Dähnick, Joachimsthal, Deutschland
- Helga Tettenborn, Hausfrau, Berlin, Deutschland
- Bundesministerin a.D. Sabine
Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, MdB, stellv. Vorsitzende der FDP-
Bundestagsfraktion,
Landesvorsitzende der FDP Bayern, Berlin und Tutzing, Deutschland
- Monika Schulz, MdL, Guben,
Sozial-,
Familien- und Frauenpolitische Sprecherin der CDU-Fraktion im
Brandenburgischen
Landtag
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