The US State Department's 2021 report on Austria, read for two distinct legal mechanisms it documents: the Federal Office of Sect Issues' treatment of groups such as the Church of Scientology, organized as an ordinary legal association rather than recognized as a religious society or confessional community, and Section 188 of the Austrian Criminal Code, which criminalizes publicly disparaging or ridiculing an object of veneration of a church or religious community established in the country, upheld by the European Court of Human Rights in E.S. v. Austria (2018).
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Citation
AuthorUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious Freedom
PublisherUS Department of State
URLhttps://www.state.gov/reports/2021-report-on-international-religious-freedom/austria/
Source TypeGovernment report
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Tier 1: an official annual government report summarizing Austria's own legal framework, read for the Federal Office of Sect Issues' non-recognition of Scientology as a religious society and for Section 188 of the Criminal Code on disparagement of religious teachings. Cross-Tradition Connections
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