Publisher Fined for Insulting Pope in Article
From Times Wire Reports
Poland’s communist-era government spokesman was convicted and fined $6,500 for insulting Polish-born Pope John Paul II in a satirical weekly.
A court ruled that Jerzy Urban, founder and publisher of the weekly magazine Nie, Polish for “no,†illegally insulted the pontiff when he wrote and printed a piece making fun of the pope’s age and frailty.
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