Operation Clambake's webmaster wins human rights awardLong-time Scientology critic and Internet pioneer for "cult awareness" Andreas Heldal-Lund has received a human rights award, reports CNET News.
Norwegian Heldal-Lund was awarded the "2003 Leipzig Human Rights Award " by the European-American Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the USA.
The committee cited Heldal-Lund's website "Operation Clambake" as "the most famous Internet site in the world...that exposes and opposes the fraud and human rights violations of the US-based Scientology organization."
Scientology has subjected the Norwegian to intense harassment and legal challenges.
But despite this pressure he has carried on and triumphed over what Time Magazine once called, "a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a Mafia-like manner."
Heldal-Lund is the fourth recipient of the annual award.
[Posted by Rick Ross at 01:06 PM][Link]
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