Why Scientology gets refugees to work for free on the streets of Dublin
The Irish branch of the Church of Scientology has been going into an international protection asylum centre in Dublin and recruiting the refugees living there for all types of work, from cleaning parks to handing out anti-drug leaflets on the streets of the capital.
The men are not paid, instead they are given a “certificate” which they are told will help them in their asylum applications.
Many of the people strolling though Dublin who take a leaflet off one of these men will not be aware that it originates in the Church of Scientology.
Irish Times reporters Sorcha Pollak and Conor Gallagher…
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