| | Church of Scientology International Human Rights Office: France |
 | | In 1995, a number of MPs comprising a French parliamentary commission assembled a list of those groups it considered “sects.” The Commission has been severely criticized for ignoring expert scholarship and relying on information from militant anti-religious groups. |
 | | During a Senate debate on December 16, 1999, a vice president of the Senate Law Commission, Dinah Derycke, stated that a new law was intended to deny targeted religions their due process rights: |
 | | Speaking at an event organized by the Protestant pastor of the Eglise des Batignolles on February 7, Anne Fournier from the French government’s “Interministerial Mission to Fight Against Sects (MILS)” sought to deal with concerns that MILS represents a threat to religious freedom. |
| www.humanrights-france.org /discriminations-religion.htm (846 words) |