Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (England) - City of Westmister Magistrates’ Court

Date: 03/07/2011

Subject: The decision which deemed legitimate the limitation of the freedom of expression of a man sentenced to pay a 50 pounds penalty for acts against public order, for having declared, during a demonstration in memory of soldiers who died in World War I, that British soldiers “burn in hell” and for having then set fire to two plastic poppies, which are the symbol of the sacrifice made by 300.000 soldiers died in the Flanders in only one day in 1917

Parties: CPS -V- MOHAMMAD RAZAUL HAQUE AND EMDADUR CHOUDHURY

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 11 Freedom of expression

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