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The term "profanity" is so "elastic" that any meme, cartoon, or Facebook status can become a pretext for prison.
In a democratic state, the President, the Prime Minister, the Parliament or the Courts are not objects of worship, but public servants who can be criticized, even harshly, without being tarnished by criminal codes. The term "blasphemy" is so "elastic" that any meme, cartoon or Facebook status can become a pretext for imprisonment.
Article 55 (agitation - propaganda) of the communist era was clearer!
Article 236 of the new draft Criminal Code.
"Desecration of the Republic, the President, the Assembly, the Council of Ministers, the Constitutional Court or the judicial system, the armed forces or the martyrs of the Homeland is punishable by imprisonment of up to three years.
For the purpose of this law, desecration shall mean the violation of something sacred, high moral qualities or universally respected values, the humiliation, rendering useless, contempt, mockery, desecration, or contempt of the institutions mentioned in this provision.
In Belgium, only public desecration of the King is punishable by 6 months to 3 years in prison. In 2021, the Belgian Constitutional Court repealed this article as “contrary to freedom of expression.”
The Dutch Constitutional Court has done the same thing since 2018.
If this article is approved, all Albanians have the legal right to seek political asylum.
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