German court OKs surveillance on Church of Scientology

Berlin - A German administrative court has upheld a lower court ruling allowing the country’s intelligence services to monitor activities of the Church of Scientology. The North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court in Muenster says there is sufficient information to permit intelligence agencies to keep the organization under observation. The court ruled there are concrete indications that the church and its members maintain ambitions against Germany’s democratic order.

[and mosques? any anti-democracy ambitions there?]

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