An anti-war protester convicted of desecration after he put multi-coloured condoms on a statue of Jesus has been cleared on appeal.<\/p>\n
Fedja Stukan was fined \ufffd170 last year for putting three condoms on the statue’s fingers with a note saying: “Make love not war”.<\/p>\n
The actor’s stunt, at the Sarajevo monument in front of Sarajevo Cathedral, was a protest at the US-led invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n
Stukan’s lawyers appealed against the ruling and a county court in Sarajevo said he had not committed a crime in carrying out his protest.<\/p>\n
Catholic Church officials had condemned the protest as “deeply offensive”.<\/p>\n
Church spokesman Marko Josipovic said: “He offended Catholics. We simply cannot understand such a protest.”<\/p>\n
But Stukan said: “It’s ridiculous. I’ve never ever heard of anyone being fined because of three condoms. I did not want to offend Catholics but only suggested that it was better to make love rather than war.” An anti-war protester convicted of desecration after he put multi-coloured condoms on a statue of Jesus has been cleared on appeal. Fedja Stukan was fined \ufffd170 last year for putting…<\/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-7545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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