Criticize homosexuality in Sweden and go to jail?: No problem for European court
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Criticize homosexuality in Sweden and go to jail: No problem for European rights court The four men were convicted in 2006 by the District Court, which ruling was overturned on appeal but later upheld by the Supreme Court in a narrow 5-3 decision. Anyone challenging the homosexualist agenda in public in Sweden can be sent to prison, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that this does not constitute any violation of rights. In 2004, the Swedish government charged a group of pamphleteers with “agitation against a national or ethnic group ,” a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 2 years in prison. The four appealed to the ECHR, which ruled on February 9th that their application was “manifestly ill-founded”. The court said that the conviction constituted no violation of Article 10 ( Freedom of Expression ) of the European Convention on Human Rights . It was a “legitimate and proportional interference” with the applicant