More Weak-Sauce From Germany

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(04-15-2016, 09:46 AM)Rotobeast Wrote: As if the forced acceptance of the influx of muslim immigrants, they will now be prosecuted for speaking I'll of any leaders of muslim countries. The law had existed, but this will be the first prosecution in recent memory.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/15/angela-merkel-agrees-prosecution-comedian-erdogan-poem

"...any country's..."

Quote:Under an obscure paragraph of Germany’s criminal code, prosecutions for insults against organs or representatives of foreign states requires both a notification from the offended party and an authorisation from the government.


Merkel confirmed reports that there had been disagreements on the Böhmermann affair between the foreign ministry, interior ministry, justice ministry and her own office.



Obscure German law gives Angela Merkel a diplomatic headache

 
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The chancellor also announced that she considered the paragraph of the German legal code that had allowed the Turkish president to request the prosecution to be “unnecessary”, and that legal steps would be taken towards scrapping it.

Paragraph 103 of the German criminal code criminalises insults against organs or representatives of foreign states.

The chancellor expressed “grave concerns” about the prosecution of individual journalists in [url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/turkey]Turkey, as well as growing limitations to the right to protest, but emphasised Germany’s close diplomatic ties with the country.