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![]() HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS INVESTIGATION INV. NO. FRA-01070401 DATE: MAY 28, 2001 STATUS: ONGOING AND DEVELOPING COUNTRY: FRANCE SUBJECT: GOVERNMENT: ABOUT-PICARD LEGISLATION NAME OF INVESTIGATION: FRENCH EXTREMIST POLITICAL ACTION CREATING RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE BACKGROUND/PREMISE OF INVESTIGATION: Due to a significant increase in incidents of religious discrimination and intolerance in France, recently culminating in the passage of a new extremist anti-religious law attempting to set aside the most basic rights and freedoms of French citizens, Freedom Magazine has opened a series of investigations into the matter of religious intolerance and totalitarianism in France. This is compounded by the fact that in recent weeks, France appears to be heading on a self-destructive course in violation of its international human rights commitments, despite criticisms from the Council of Europe, the Catholic and Protestant churches, the international human rights community and the U.S. State Department. While preliminary investigations indicate that a small minority of extremist individuals acting in collaboration with vested interest groups are engineering the French government’s attack upon religion, their motives, real agenda and connections are not yet fully known. All parties are innocent until PROVEN guilty, but as proven out many times in the past, those attacking the rights of their fellows or good people or churches, DO NOT HAVE clean hands. We ask that anyone with information or evidence of crimes, abuses, transgressions or collusion with vested interests, drug suppliers, organized crime or terrorist organizations related to these investigations or if you just have information pertaining to and relevant to these investigations, please send it to the e-mail address below or contact our editorial office listed below.
All information and the identities of those coming forward will be kept strictly confidential.
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