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Majority-Catholic Poland has some of the strictest defamation laws of any democratic country, which includes laws defaming the Catholic Church. For many artists, this has meant years of legal trouble, including threats of jail time.
In the ruin of today's churches people are engaging the great questions. And out of that several pedagogies of the oppressed are emerging.
Elżbieta Podleśna © Marta Frej ‘offending religious beliefs’ with Virgin Mary image Authorities must stop using criminal justice system to target human rights activists ‘They had risked up to two years in prison simply for standing up for LGBTI rights in a climate of hate and discrimination in Poland’ - Catrinel Motoc Three Polish human rights activists have been acquitted today of charges of “offending religious beliefs” after they pasted up posters depicting the Virgin Mary with a halo in the rainbow colours of the LGBTI pride flag. The Polish authorities had alleged tha...
The posters, which they distributed in the city of Plock in 2019, were meant to protest what was seen as the hostility of Poland’s influential Catholic church toward LGBTQ people.
Polish LGBT rights activists gather outside a court which acquitted three women who faced trial on accusations of desecration, in Plock, Poland, Tuesday March 2, 2021. A Polish court has acquitted three activists who had been accused of desecration for adding the LGBT rainbow to images of a revered Roman Catholic icon. In posters that they put up in protest in their city of Plock, the activists used the rainbow in place of halos on a revered image of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish court on Tuesday acquitted three activists who had...