| Leipzig Human Rights Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | "As our Charter and our name state, we are a transatlantic organization that focuses principally on human rights and religious freedom in the USA, and on the rise of organized totalitarianism."[1] |
| Location | Leipzig, Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Presented by | European-American Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the USA |
| First awarded | 2000 |
| Last awarded | 2003 |
| Website | http://www.leipzig-award.org/englisch/index.html |
The Leipzig Human Rights Award is an honor given by the European-American Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the USA, which recognizes "efforts towards human rights and freedom of expression in the USA" and actions against what the organization refers to as "human rights violations by the totalitarian Scientology."[2] Prior to 2001, the honor was known as the Alternative Charlemagne Award.[2]
Former Scientology critic Bob Minton received the first award in 2000. Other notable recipients of the award include former German Federal Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm, former Secretary of State of France, Alain Vivien and Operation Clambake founder Andreas Heldal-Lund. Psychologist Margaret Singer was selected at the 2003 ceremony to be the 2004 Award recipient, but she died shortly thereafter and no award was given in that year.
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