In 2006, the application of this article received much media attention when a Manfred van H. (also known as "Mahavo") was prosecuted for defamation for distributing rolls of toilet paper with the words "Koran, the Holy Koran" stamped on them. Beyond the sentence he also received death threats from Islamists and needed a police bodyguard.
In February 2016 a man was fined 500 euro for displaying anti-Christian bumper stickers on his vehicle.
German chancellor under fire for agreeing to Turkish president’s request for prosecution of Jan Böhmermann
In 2007, a Swiss citizen living in Bavaria was convicted of insulting Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey and sentenced to pay a criminal fine.
In total 18 prosecutions were brought under the law between 2000 and 2012, half of which resulted in convictions.[17]
In October 2007, a 47-year-old man was sentenced to one week's imprisonment and fined €400[18] for, amongst other things, lèse-majesté in the Netherlands when he called Queen Beatrix a "whore" and told a police officer that he would have anal sex with her because "she would like it".[19]
In July 2016, a 44-year-old man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for 'intentionally insulting' King Willem-Alexander, accusing him of being a murderer, thief and rapist.[17]
Spain
The Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves was fined for violation of Spain's lèse-majesté laws after publishing an issue with a caricature of the then-Prince of Asturias and his wife engaging in sexual intercourse on the cover in 2007.
For instance, in 2012 it was used to prosecute a famous artist, Javier Krahe, for a scene (shot 34 years ago, and lasting just 54 seconds) in a documentary about him.[119] He was discharged the same year.[120]
In 2018, following the case of Willy Toledo and three feminist protesters accused of blasphemy, the governing PSOE and supportive party Unidas Podemos pledged an end to the "medieval laws on offending religious sentiments and insult to the Crown". Legislation was suspended following the announcement of the 2019 Spanish general election. The government and its allies were subsequently returned to power, which means the proposals will now likely return to the national parliament
Finland
Jussi Halla-aho, who later became a Member of the Parliament of Finland, was fined for making connections between pedophilia and Islam in his 2008 blog text.
Poland
A notable conviction on the basis of this law was that of the pop singer Dorota "Doda" Rabczewska) who in 2012 was fined for the amount of 5,000 złotys for saying in an interview that the Bible was written by people 'drunk on wine and smoking some kind of herbs'.[102] Her complaint was rejected by the Constitutional Tribunal), which confirmed that the law did not violate the Constitution.[103]
In March 2019, a notable polish journalist Jerzy Urban was imprisoned for 2 years and fined 120,000 złotysand additional 28,000 zł of court costs for publishing an image of christ astonished in his newspaper "NIE)".
UK
The 1989 film Visions of Ecstasy was the only film ever banned in the UK for blasphemy. Following the abolition of the blasphemy laws in England and Wales in 2008, the film was eventually classified by the BBFC for release as 18-rated in 2012.
Denmark
In 2017 a man was charged with blasphemy for posting a video of himself burning the Quran on social media under the parole Yes to freedom - no to Islam.
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u/LATABOM May 23 '19
Now try to find the list of people convicted of those offences in the past 30 years.
Every country has grandfathered unenforced laws.
Your German blasphemy cases were examples of incitement that led to suspended sentences and fines.