Renewed judgment guarantees freedom of religion and Coalition for Scientologists and people of all faiths in all 47 Member States of the Council of Europe the European Court of Justice has decided today unanimously for human rights in favor of two religious groupings of the Scientology Church in Russia. The Court found that they are entitled to be registered as religious communities in accordance with Russian law. The judgment also decided that the founder of Scientology have churches in Surgut and Nizhnekamsk of the right to freedom of religion and Association in accordance with articles 9 and 11 of the European Convention of human rights. In his reasons for the sentence, it says the Court \”found that the applicant had not the opportunity to receive recognition and effective exercise of their rights to freedom of religion and Association in any organized way. The first applicant the Scientology Group as a non-religious legal entity registration not achieved, as the Russian authorities as a viewed religious community. The applications for registration as a religious community, were filed by the first and second applicants as founding members of their respective grouping and also on behalf of the third subject – see pointed out the insufficient inventory time of the groups * rejected. As a result of the restricted status of a religious group – to which they were entitled and existed in the context of the third applicant – granted no practical or effective benefits them, because the legal capacity, property rights and the legal way, such a grouping has been withheld to protect the interests of its members, and it was also seriously hindered in the exercise of the most fundamental aspects of their religious functions. Accordingly the Court holds that the rights of the applicant under article 9 freedom of religion, interpreted in the light of article were affected 11 freedom of Association.
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