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Moscow Scientology society refused legal registration

EXPERT ANALYSIS OF SCIENTOLOGY ORDERED BY MOSCOW COURT IN CASE OF CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY

Portal-credo.ru, 16 December 2014

 

Scientology is being subjected to a religious studies expert analysis within the framework of the case regarding the refusal of the Russian Ministry of Justice to register the charter of the Moscow Church of Scientology, the Izmailovsky court of the capital told RIA Novosti on 15 December.

 

"The trial has been recessed because a religious studies expert analysis has been ordered for this case. It will be analyzed what this organization is like. The results will appear no sooner than a month," a spokeswoman of the press service said.

 

As has been reported, representatives of the Moscow Church of Scientology sent to the court an appeal against the action of the Ministry of Justice, after the agency refused to register their charter.

 

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Justice established during the course of a routine inspection of documents that the charter of the religious organization does not conform to provisions of the federal law on freedom of religious confession and the word "Scientology" has been registered as a trademark, whose legal owner is the Center for Religious Technology in the USA. Because of this, the agency sent to a Moscow city court a petition to liquidate this organization. The trial in Moscow city court will resume after the question about the charter is considered in the Izmailovsky court.

 

Dianetics and Scientology is a religious philosophical movement that was founded in the USA in the early 1950s by science fiction writer Lafayette Ron Hubbard. The scientific community has not recognized it as a science.

 

By a decision of the Moscow provincial court, several of Hubbard's books were included in the federal list of extremist materials in 2012 and their distribution on the territory of the RF was banned. (tr. by PDS, posted 17 December 2014)


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