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  2. Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Laws prohibiting blasphemy and blasphemous libel in the United Kingdom date back to the medieval times as common law and in some special cases as enacted legislation. The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008 and Scotland in 2024. Equivalent laws remain in Northern Ireland.

  3. Freedom of religion in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The common law offence of blasphemy was repealed in 2008. The last person to be imprisoned for blasphemy in the UK was John William Gott in 1922, for comparing Jesus Christ to a clown. [18] The next blasphemy case was in 1977, when Mary Whitehouse brought a private prosecution (Whitehouse v.

  4. Blasphemous libel - Wikipedia

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    The Stephen Code included the offence of blasphemous libel but omitted blasphemy. The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were abolished in England and Wales with the passage of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 [1] but the offences remain as part of the common law, criminal code, or criminal statute in various ...

  5. Blasphemy law - Wikipedia

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    A blasphemy law is a law prohibiting ... News of the investigation caused ... The 1989 film Visions of Ecstasy was the only film ever banned in the UK for blasphemy ...

  6. Whitehouse v Lemon - Wikipedia

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    On 17 March 1978, the Court of Appeal quashed Denis Lemon's suspended prison sentence but upheld the convictions on the basis that the law of blasphemy had been developed before mens rea, literally, a "guilty mind", became an essential element of a crime. Gay News readers voted by a majority of 20 to 1 in favour of appealing to the House of Lords.

  7. Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 - Wikipedia

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    Racial and Religious Hatred Bill (BBC News Bill Tracker) politics.co.uk news roundup; Q&A: Religious hatred law (BBC News, 9 June 2005) New effort to ban religious hate (BBC News, 11 June 2005) Blackadder's revenge hits the hate bill (The Sunday Times, 9 October 2005) Protest over religious hate (BBC News, 11 October 2005)

  8. Christian mother in Nigeria acquitted of blasphemy charges ...

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    A Nigerian Christian has been fully acquitted of any wrongdoing after spending 19 months in prison on blasphemy charges.. Rhoda Jatau, a mother of five, was arrested in May 2022 after she ...

  9. Blasphemy - Wikipedia

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    Blasphemy laws were rarely enforced in pre-modern Islamic societies, but in the modern era some states and radical groups have used charges of blasphemy in an effort to burnish their religious credentials and gain popular support at the expense of liberal Muslim intellectuals and religious minorities. [58]