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Trial of the OKC Buddhist community: Robert Spatz lodges an appeal in High court of law.
Robert Spatz filed an appeal in cassation against the decision pronounced against him on December 2 by the Court of Appeal of Liège, confirmed his lawyer, Mr. Quentin Wauters. The spiritual leader of the Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Buddhist sect had been sentenced to a 5-year suspended prison sentence for the remainder of his pre-trial…
Archie Media OKC-Spatz-cult 93-2016
Archive Presse OKC-Spatz-secte 93-2016 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7ZZBZAiuR-zWEh3Q2pmSnJWdk0 #okcproces
Hearings, pleadings and replies to trial #SPATZ #OKC completed.
Hearings, pleadings and replies to trial #SPATZ #OKC concluded. Deliberation + judicial recess and it resumes on Thursday, September 15 with judgment. Yesterday with the end of the defense’s replies we saw Spatz’s lawyer become more Spatzist than the guru himself by adopting his doctrine himself and spreading it for an hour in the courtroom…
It’s moving to read you, to find yourself at the bend of these verbs… even if we would have liked to see each other in more joyful conditions.
It’s moving to read you, to find yourself at the bend of these verbs… even if we had liked to see ourselves in happier conditions. I really like the answer “And the others,…” In memory of the beautiful writing, I remember all of you, our laughter, our loves, our beliefs, the intensity of our lives,…
The 36 victims of the OKC sect left on the cold
This is once again an important case of social and financial criminal law that did not hold up in the Brussels Court of Appeal. The Ogyen Kunzang Choling Buddhist community, which had been listed as a sect, was being prosecuted for numerous offences ranging from forgery, extortion and money laundering to child hostage-taking and sexual…
Marteling, gijzeling, misbruik, fraude, maar GOEROE GAAT VRIJUIT #metoo #metooguru
Na ruim 20 jaar valt het doek over het proces tegen Brusselaar Robert Spatz (73), de goeroe van de sekte OKC. De rechtbank veroordeelde hem aanvankelijk voor fraude en de gijzeling van tientallen kinderen, die sekteleden verplicht moesten afstaan. Maar het hof van beroep wees op procedure- en onderzoeksfouten en sprak Spatz gisteren vrij. De…
Verdict of the Appeal Trial OKC-Spatz 2018 #metoo #metooguru #sexualabuses #balancetonporc
After 18 years of instructions, procedures and attempts to dilute (successfully) the course of the trial in the case of OKC and Robert Spatz, here is that the axe has fallen: inadmissibility of prosecution. The whole trial has therefore fallen apart: The Brussels Court of Appeal ruled that, following errors committed by a judicial expert,…
@DalaiLama admitiu ter conhecimento de casos de abusos de mestres #budistas #metooguru
Commentário nosso : O que foi feito em 25 anos alem de “name & shame” ? Vitimas de OKC foram para Justicia mas alem disto demasiadas vezes, como na Igreja catolica, a religião organizada trata destes assuntos na sombra e vez de deixar a Justiça fazer o seu trabalho : pois na Europa abusos sexuais…
Top Tibetan Buddhist leaders to hear sex abuse allegations against lamas in the West?
(TibetanReview.net, Sep16, 2018) – Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has, on Sep 14, reportedly undertaken to raise the issue of Tibetan Buddhist masters’ alleged sex and related emotional abuse of their students in the West during the upcoming November meeting in Dharamshala of the top leaders of all the religious schools of Tibet.…
#MeTooGuru: Dalai Lama meets alleged victims of abuse by Buddhist gurus | Inquirer News
Four people who say they suffered sexual, physical or psychological abuse at the hands of Tibetan Buddhist teachers have handed to the Dalai Lama 12 victims’ written accounts of mistreatment and appealed to him to tackle the problem. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1032388/metooguru-dalai-lama-meets-alleged-victims-of-abuse-by-buddhist-gurus
Droit de réponse à @BelgaNewsAgency et @lavenir_net #okcproces
Suite à la publication de cette brève Belga : et suite à la publication de cet article dans le journal l’Avenir qui reprend la même fausse information. OKCinfo tient à corriger un élément essentiel à cet brève Belga : En effet, certaines parties civiles avaient raconté, dès l’entame du procès en janvier 2016, avoir subi des maltraitances…
