Talk:Insult of officials and the state

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I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thank you for this new article, but it appears to use the otherwise unknown term "Insult of officials and the state" for an offense that is called many different things in various countries, and it has no introduction that informs the reader on the definition of the offense and why some countries have laws about it..

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Compiling refrerences

 * Albania
 * Defamation Laws In Albania

FEBRUARY 5, 2014 Bahrain toughens penalties for insulting king By Reuters Staff
 * Bahrain


 * Belarus
 * On 31 January 2022, a woman in Belarus was handed an 18-month prison sentence for "insulting" the country’s authoritarian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko and other authorities after pictures mocking the officials were found on her phone.

in Social Analysis Author: Pnina Werbner and Richard Werbner DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2019.630305
 * Botswana
 * [https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/social-analysis/63/3/sa630305.xmlA Case of Insult: Emotion, Law, and Witchcraft Accusations in a Botswana Village Customary Court

https:theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/05/dutch-divided-over-law-against-insulting-the-king Dutch divided over law against insulting the king Government in the Netherlands split over attempts to scrap its lèse-majesté law
 * Netherlands

Daniel Boffey in Brussels Mon 5 Feb 2018

By Christopher Schuetze April 11, 2018 — 2.17pm
 * [https:amp.smh.com.au/world/europe/dutch-parliament-reduces-penalties-for-insulting-king-20180411-p4z8yx.html Dutch Parliament reduces penalties for insulting king]

Jan 25, 2017
 * Germany
 * Germany to abolish law on insulting foreign leaders — just in time for you] ...

Proposed law to ban insulting police stirs debate; Some Hong Kong lawmakers say a law prohibiting insults against police may fuel more social unrest By JEFF PAO DECEMBER 17, 2019
 * Hong Kong

BY STAFF |MAR 24 2017 ''See Crimen injuria'
 * Iceland
 * Iceland's anachronistic law banning insults of foreign heads of state comes under fire]

Blasphemy law in the Republic of Ireland
 * Ireland

By Jessie Yeung, Emiko Jozuka and Kathleen Benoza, CNN Updated 1:24 AM EDT, Tue June 14, 2022
 * Japan
 * Japan makes 'online insults' punishable by one year in prison in wake of reality TV star's death]

from Part III - Legal Framework], Cambridge University Press
 * [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/07/national/crime-legal/online-insults/ Jail time and tougher penalties for online insults come into effect in Japan 7 - Hate Speech and Criminal Law Frameworks in Japan

; Malaysia

Article 135 of the Polish penal code states that anyone who publicly insults (kto publicznie znieważa) the President of Poland is punishable by up to three years of imprisonment. Prior to March 2021, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal declared the law consistent with the Polish constitution and Polish international treaty obligations, arguing that the effective carrying out of the duties of the president requires having authority and being especially respected.
 * Poland

Criminal Defamation and Public Insult Law in the Republic of Poland: The Curtailing of Freedom of Expression] Author(s): Michael T. Moran Date: 2018 Group(s): Michigan State International Law Review Subject(s): International law Item Type: Legal Comment Tag(s): ILR Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/znbz-a241
 * [https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:35631/


 * https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/24/inenglish/1540373559_454299.html%3foutputType=amp

Marc Bennetts in Moscow Wed 6 Mar 2019 11.36 EST [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/russian-parliament-outlaws-online-disrespect Russia passes law to jail people for 15 days for ‘disrespecting’ government Law allowing courts to fine or jail offenders is reminiscent of Soviet-era laws used to target dissidents, say critics]

Marc Bennetts in Moscow Wed 6 Mar 2019 11.36 EST 27 NOV 2012
 * South Africa

By Sarah Britten, Mail & Guardian
 * South Africa
 * Jou ma se insult laws – and why insults matter


 * Spain

Spanish Congress moves to decriminalize insulting the king: If the reform goes ahead, it will no longer be a crime to insult the monarch, national symbols, state institutions or religious sentiment EL Pais

Thai scholar faces royal insult charge over medieval king By Reuters Staff]
 * Thailand
 * [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-lesemajeste-idUSKCN0I90OS20141020 CTOBER 20, 20141:51 AMUPDATED 8 YEARS AGO

[https://thediplomat.com/2022/12/will-thailand-ever-repeal-its-archaic-lese-majeste-law/ Will Thailand Ever Repeal Its Archaic Lese Majeste Law?: An exiled Thai professor talks about his campaign to abolish the controversial law, which criminalizes criticisms of the country’s monarchy]

Sebastian Strangio By Sebastian Strangio December 06, 2022

August 16, 2018 15:33 GMT Elinruby (talk) 22:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Tajikistan
 * [www.rferl.org/amp/tajik-man-murodov-jailed-insulting-president-social-media/29437715.html Tajik Man Jailed For 'Insulting' President On Social Media], RFE/RL


 * Tajikistan: Human rights lawyer, Buzurgmehr Yorov, sentenced to a further three years' imprisonment

https://guardian.ng/news/turkey-silences-critics-with-presidential-insult-law/ Turkey ‘silences critics’ with presidential insult law] By AFP 21 February 2022  |
 * Turkey

Recent changes (based on AfD discussion)
Based on the discussion at WP:Articles_for_deletion/Insult_of_officials_and_the_state it seems this article is going to end up being kept so I decided to start tinkering with the article. Here's my thinking: At some point the additional sources proposed by User:Elinruby above should be included as inline cites. I'm not prepared to do that, at least not while there's still a possibility of deletion. Oblivy (talk) 03:40, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * there's a separate article on Lèse-majesté which covers most of the same topic so I've included a short sentence and link to that article
 * I've changed the lede to be more like "list of" articles found elsewhere
 * eventually we should link to this list within Lèse-majesté
 * objections were voiced (including by me) as to whether the blasphemy column was in-scope, and nobody (on my reading) said it should be kept, so I deleted the column and its contents
 * assuming this stays as a list-only article, the title eventually needs to be changed to something like List of Countries with Laws on Insulting the State, Its Symbols or its Officials


 * for much the same reason the above list is quick and dirty, but i am willing to work on incorporating some links. I just simply can't commit to doing all that needs to be done myself. A couple of links don't work above, (Mail&Guardian, El País) but I can find them again. On reflection my link for Japan is about cyberbullying, but Japan fits the overall pattern of a former monarchy, or empire in this case. This observation is my own and probably qualifies as synth; I have no intention of including it unsourced but i do just want to make the point that Japan is worth another look even if you probably don't want to spend any time on that particulsr link. There was another country where the link turned out to be for a legal practice and therefore unusable: it is only there to support that that country has such a law. Elinruby (talk) 17:43, 12 April 2023 (UTC)