“Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” HBO docu trailer (video) February 21, 2015 - 11:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Scientology is “quite logical” in the beginning, according to one of the religion’s dissenters featured in Alex Gibney‘s upcoming HBO documentary, “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”, TheWrap reports. The first trailer for the film that caused a ruckus at Sundance last month features voices of those who left the church created by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, and were willing to speak to Gibney about it. “They sell it all in the beginning as something quite logical,” an anonymous man says. A different voice adds: “You take on a matrix of thought that is not your own.” In the film, Gibney interviews several senior members of Scientology who have left the church in the past half-dozen years, suffering continual harassment by the church and the abandonment by family members as a result. They admit to submitting to punishment by church leader Miscavige, who kept some of them in a private Florida prison camp where they were humiliated and physically abused for years. More hot topics covered in the documentary include slave labor on Scientology’s Sea Org boats, members forced to “disconnect” from disobedient family members and a plot to destroy Tom Cruise‘s marriage to Nicole Kidman. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. |