Our European Office for Public Affairs and Human Rights is staffed by Scientologists with many years experience in human rights advocacy. Mr. Martin Weightman is in charge of the Church’s human rights programmes.

Martin Weightman, originally from Manchester, England, became a member of the Scientology religion in 1972. He served the Church in its United Kingdom headquarters and in France for 20 years before moving to Brussels in the early 1990s. There, he established the Church’s first European Human Rights Office and for the next decade spoke out against human rights abuses and campaigned for religious freedom throughout Europe. He worked in Eastern and Western Europe to prevent repressive legislation that would diminish the rights of religious minorities.

Mr. Weightman has presented papers and speeches on various aspects of religious freedom to the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United Nations and other European Union institutions. He has actively participated in OSCE annual conferences and special sessions on religious freedom, and in the mid-1990s, he gained OSCE recognition of the Church’s Human Rights Office as a non-governmental organization

In his new position as Human Rights Director of the Church of Scientology’s new European Office for Public Affairs and Human Rights, Mr. Weightman is responsible for implementation of the Church’s ever-widening campaign to mobilize governments and citizens to restore and preserve basic human rights.

Mr. Fabio Amicarelli, Executive Director - Church of Scientology International European Office for Public Affairs and Human Rights