Switzerland: UDC cleared of racial discrimination charges

by Esther
Islam in Europe
May 5, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/308/switzerland-udc-cleared-of-racial-discrimination

Excerpt:

 On April 27 a court in ruled that the Swiss People's Party (UDC) will not be sued for racial discrimination.

The prosecutor in Valais had turned to the court after the party came out with a poster in the 2007 federal elections showing Muslims praying during a demonstration against the Mohammad cartoons in the Federal Square in Bern in 2006, under the slogan "Use your heads! Vote UDC. Switzerland, always free!"

Federal judge Dominique Favre says that even if it does show a lack of openness and respect, and thought it plays on fears, it does not present Muslims as being unequal and is not a violation of the penal code. The judge said that crticiism is accepatble in a democracy, even if it is sometimes extreme or in bad taste.
 

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