THE of a Polish satirical weekly, Jerzy Urban, will go on trial on charges of insulting Pope John Paul II, the public prosecutor’s office said today.<\/p>\n
Urban, a former spokesman for the Communist government during the 1980s, faces between three months and three years in prison if found guilty, the public prosecutor’s spokesman Maciej Kujawski said.<\/p>\n
The founder and owner of the satirical weekly Nie, Urban published a story in his newspaper, entitled “Walking Sado-Masochism” and referring to the Pope, among other things, as an “impotent old man”.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor says the article “transgressed the legal limits on freedom of speech and the standards of journalistic ethics, by using offensive expressions … with the aim of libelling and humiliating (the Pope)”. THE of a Polish satirical weekly, Jerzy Urban, will go on trial on charges of insulting Pope John Paul II, the public prosecutor’s office said today. Urban, a former spokesman…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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