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Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola
Coverage of Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola in the Nexus archive.
- Finnish lawmaker appeals hate speech conviction over decades-old pamphlet on homosexuality
Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen is appealing her hate speech conviction to the European Court of Human Rights after being criminally convicted for a decades-old pamphlet on homosexuality. The pamphlet, published in 2004, referred to homosexuality as a 'developmental disorder'. Räsänen intends to uphold her free speech rights.