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Germany’s flag burning ban is a threat to freedom of expression

19 May 2020

7:13 PM

19 May 2020

7:13 PM

Germany’s national parliament has made the public burning of the European Union flag and flags of foreign countries punishable by up to three years in jail, classing it as a hate crime. In a vote last Thursday, the German parliament made the act of defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag.

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