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Blasphemy is now illegal in ireland. WTF

BrokenArrows · 2009-07-20 23:07:17

Are you kidding me. it is actually illegal now to criticise the church. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7171/

20-07-2009 11:07pm

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Are you kidding me. it is actually illegal now to criticise the church.

Aside from a €25,000 fine (reduced from the €100,000 originally sought by the government), the new Defamation Act gives the authorities the power to stage raids on publishers: the courts may now issue a warrant authorising the police to enter, using ‘reasonable force’, premises where they have grounds for believing there are copies of ‘blasphemous statements’.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7171/

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