Three women in Poland were charged with "offending religious beliefs" for possessing and distributing posters that showed an image of the Virgin Mary with a rainbow halo. In March of last year, they were acquitted of the crime, but prosecutors issued an appeal. Yesterday, the court threw out that appeal. Article 196 of Poland’s penal code states that offending people’s religious feelings by publicly outraging an object or place of religious worship is a criminal offence. The punishment would have been up to two years in prison if found guilty. Catrinel Motoc, Amnesty International’s senior campaigner for Europe said, "Today’s decision comes as a huge relief but cannot disguise the fact that these three women should never have been put on trial in the first place. Distributing posters of the Virgin Mary wearing a rainbow halo should never be criminalized, so it is right that the appeal against their acquittal was rejected."
Appeal Verdict Over Poster With Virgin Mary and LGBT Halo
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