Päivi Räsänen appeals hate speech conviction to European Court of Human Rights
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Updated · Fox News · May 7
Päivi Räsänen appeals hate speech conviction to European Court of Human Rights
9 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 7
The Finnish MP is challenging a 3-2 Supreme Court ruling last month over a 2004 pamphlet that described homosexuality as a developmental disorder.
Räsänen said the conviction endangers free speech in Finland and across Europe, while her lawyers at ADF International called the case part of a wider censorship trend.
She and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola were charged in 2021, after lower-court acquittals in 2022 and 2023, though her separate 2019 tweet was acquitted again last month.
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