Alain Vivien (born August 20, 1938) is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician, best known for chairing (from 1998 to 2002) the French Mission Interministérielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes, MILS, a ministerial organism designed to observe the activities of various religious organizations defined as "Sectes" (cults).

Contents

• 1 Early career
• 2 Awards
• 3 See also
• 4 References

Early career

He was mayor of Combs-la-Ville in 1977-1983 and 1989-1992. In 1983 he was elected to the French National *embly for Seine-et-Marne as a PS candidate. The author of a report on cults requested by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in 1982, he was Secretary of State under Édith Cresson in 1991-1992 From 1997 to 1998 he was president of the Centre contre les manipulations mentales

Awards

• Leipzig Human Rights Award, May 11, 2002

See also

• About-Picard law
• Status of religious freedom in France
• List of anti-cult organizations and individuals

References

• ^ (in French) Pourquoi la bataille anti-sectes a échoué:? ("Why did the fight against cults fail?") by Thomas Lardeur, VSD, August 22 to 28, 2002
• ^ CESNUR, Anonymous, Innocents Abroad: French Anti-Cultists, Mission Support China’s Anti-Cult Campaign (Retrieved October, 2005)
• ^ Le Parisien, June 19, 2002.
• ^ (in French) Sectes:: Alain Vivien placé sous protection policière L'Humanité, January 14, 1999 .
• ^ Council of Europe, Report regarding FECRIS by Dick Marty: Doc 10470 of 7 March 2005