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Good news. Wilders is aquitted today. In one of the weirdest cases ever, where both the defense and prosecution asked for an aquittal, the judge ruled its apparently inside the law to critizise Islam, or whatever religion for that matter.

A victory for free speech!

A victory for free speech!

Speech still isn't free as long as Wilders can be prosecuted for what he says.

It's saddening how unenlightened European law still is.

event horizon wrote:Speech still isn't free as long as Wilders can be prosecuted for what he says.

The background for his prosecution is too bizar for words. Nobody wanted to prosecute Wilders after several requests. Until the a guy called Rene Danen came. Some kind of uberlefty. Via a secretary of state he persuaded the pulblic prosecution to go to trail. Juicy background is that Rene Danen during demonstrations around the Gaza war of 2008-2009 helped others to beat up a man waiving the Israeli flag. Anywho, also because of the involvement of the secretary of state (against the Trias Politica), the first trial was judged as a mistrial. The second trial was just a formality for an aquittal.