{"id":13698,"date":"2011-11-29T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/woman-claims-she-was-imprisoned-on-cruise-ship-for-12-years-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:01:00","slug":"woman-claims-she-was-imprisoned-on-cruise-ship-for-12-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/11\/woman-claims-she-was-imprisoned-on-cruise-ship-for-12-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman claims she was imprisoned on cruise ship for 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian resident has told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/lateline\/content\/2011\/s3378641.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ABC&#8217;s Lateline<\/a> TV program the Church of Scientology imprisoned her on its cruise ship The Freewinds.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shipparade.com\/az\/Freewinds\/Freewinds_2011-02-26.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shipparade.com\/az\/Freewinds\/Freewinds_2011-02-26.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1968-built, 360-passenger cruise ship, <br \/>The Freewinds, is operated by <br \/>the Church of Scientology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Valeska Paris says the Church of Scientology&#8217;s leader David Miscavige sent her to the ship when she was 18, to prevent her mother taking her away from Scientology.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Paris says she ended up being on the ship for over a decade, and was unable to leave The Freewinds for the first six years without an escort.<\/p>\n<p>She has also described the church&#8217;s leader David Miscavige as a psychopath and says he should be put on trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/thewest\/a\/-\/breaking\/12136468\/woman-imprisoned-on-scientology-cruise-ship\/\">Read the full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian resident has told ABC&#8217;s Lateline TV program the Church of Scientology imprisoned her on its cruise ship The Freewinds. 1968-built, 360-passenger cruise ship, The Freewinds, is operated by the Church of Scientology Valeska Paris says the Church of Scientology&#8217;s leader David Miscavige sent her to the ship when she was 18, to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}