A Former Scientologist Got A Protection Visa As A Victim Of Human Trafficking
An article based on Steve Cannane's book Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia that deserves its own thread.
Buzzfeed: A Former Scientologist Got A Protection Visa As A Victim Of Human Trafficking
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A Former Scientologist Got A Protection Visa As A Victim Of Human Trafficking
With the help of lawyers and the Red Cross, Jose Navarro is living a new life in Australia after leaving Scientology.
posted on Sept. 22, 2016, at 6:57 p.m.
Gina Rushton
BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia
Venezuelan man Jose Navarro was 20 when he became a Scientologist and went aboard Freewinds, the church’s 440-foot luxury cruise ship, as a chef in 1993.
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But once Navarro admitted to having pre-marital sex with a fellow trainee in 2006, he was sent off Freewinds and to the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) centre in Australia.
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After two and a half years at the RPF, which the Church of Scientology maintains was a voluntary religious retreat, Navarro told Cannane he escaped in 2010 when he was taken to the church’s building in Glebe.
With just $30 in his pocket he spent a week sleeping in Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, eating one meal a day from McDonalds.
Eventually he found a woman who had also escaped from the church and she helped organise share accommodation.
He was referred to the Australian Federal Police’s human trafficking unit where, with the help of the Red Cross and Anti-Slavery Australia, he secured a protection visa and permanent residency in Australia on the grounds that he was a victim of human trafficking.
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A Former Scientologist Got A Protection Visa As A Victim Of Human Trafficking
An article based on Steve Cannane's book Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia that deserves its own thread.
Buzzfeed: A Former Scientologist Got A Protection Visa As A Victim Of Human Trafficking
http://ift.tt/2d9U9rW
* * * * * BEGIN EXCERPT * * * * *
A Former Scientologist Got A Protection Visa As A Victim Of Human Trafficking
With the help of lawyers and the Red Cross, Jose Navarro is living a new life in Australia after leaving Scientology.
posted on Sept. 22, 2016, at 6:57 p.m.
Gina Rushton
BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia
Venezuelan man Jose Navarro was 20 when he became a Scientologist and went aboard Freewinds, the church’s 440-foot luxury cruise ship, as a chef in 1993.
[SNIP]
But once Navarro admitted to having pre-marital sex with a fellow trainee in 2006, he was sent off Freewinds and to the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) centre in Australia.
[SNIP]
After two and a half years at the RPF, which the Church of Scientology maintains was a voluntary religious retreat, Navarro told Cannane he escaped in 2010 when he was taken to the church’s building in Glebe.
With just $30 in his pocket he spent a week sleeping in Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, eating one meal a day from McDonalds.
Eventually he found a woman who had also escaped from the church and she helped organise share accommodation.
He was referred to the Australian Federal Police’s human trafficking unit where, with the help of the Red Cross and Anti-Slavery Australia, he secured a protection visa and permanent residency in Australia on the grounds that he was a victim of human trafficking.
[SNIP]
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