{"id":3598,"date":"2011-11-29T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3598"},"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/11\/woman-claims-she-was-imprisoned-on-cruise-ship-for-12-years\/","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\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shipparade.com\/az\/Freewinds\/Freewinds_2011-02-26.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><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 style=\"text-align: center;\">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><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?app_id=259616500730113&#038;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expeditioncruising.com%2F&#038;send=false&#038;layout=box_count&#038;width=450&#038;show_faces=true&#038;action=like&#038;colorscheme=light&#038;font&#038;height=90\" style=\"border: none; height: 90px; overflow: hidden; width: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","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=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}