Its lead singer, Adam Darski, while on stage in 2007, ripped pages out of a Bible and called the Roman Catholic church a “murderous cult.”In a case with echoes of Pussy Riot in Russia or the Mohammed cartoons dispute in Denmark, the Polish supreme court on Monday said prosecutors can go after Darski on the basis of article 196 of Poland’s penal code on “the crime of offending religious sensibilities.” (*)
EUobserver so za komentar prosili Evropsko komisijo. Ta jim je odgovorila, da je zakonodaja o blasfemiji sicer zadeva notranje pravne ureditve držav članic, da pa Evropska konvencija o človekovih pravicah ščiti prosto izražanje idej, tudi tistih, ki morda lahko koga užalijo, šokirajo ali vznemirijo.
“This right protects not only information or ideas that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also those that offend, shock or disturb,” the commission said. (*)
