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> Hamit Coskun was arrested and convicted for burning a Quran

Wasn't just for burning a Quran though? He was doing it whilst shouting Islamophobic abuse outside the Turkish embassy.

"[Judge McGarva] said that burning a religious book, although offensive to some, was not necessarily disorderly, but that other factors (including Islamophobic comments made in police interviews) made it so on this occasion."[0]

> Multiple cases of people being arrested for silently praying around abortion clinics.

I could only find three - two had their charges dropped[1] and one was charged for not leaving a safe zone after being advised[2] (not silently praying.)

> Arrest and conviction for dressing up as the Manchester Arena bomber for a private Halloween party.

Definitely agree that one would have been better as a warning not to be such a twat rather than arrest and conviction.

> Arrest and jailtime for sharing offensive memes publicly

> Arrest and jailtime for sharing offensive memes between a group on WhatsApp

"offensive" is doing a lot of work there given they were, in the first case, "racially aggravated online social media posts linked to national civil unrest" and, in the second case, just plain racist.

I'm ok with racist content being policed, personally?

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9v4e0z9r8o

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gze361j7xo

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9kp7r00vo



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