Index on Censorship » Sectarian http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Sectarian http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Northern Ireland: Man fined for posting anti-Catholic abuse on Facebook http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/04/northern-ireland-man-fined-for-posting-anti-catholic-abuse-on-facebook/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/04/northern-ireland-man-fined-for-posting-anti-catholic-abuse-on-facebook/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:43:14 +0000 Marta Cooper http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=35187 A man from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, was fined £250 for writing “Kill all Taigs” — a pejorative term for Catholics — and “Fuck The Pope” on social networking site Facebook on his 21st birthday last August. Dean Boyd admitted to police that he should not have posted the message — which he removed 20 minutes [...]

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]]> fined £250 for writing “Kill all Taigs” — a pejorative term for Catholics — and “Fuck The Pope” on social networking site Facebook on his 21st birthday last August. Dean Boyd admitted to police that he should not have posted the message — which he removed 20 minutes after doing so — but said it had only been intended for his friends and he had not intended to trigger hatred, the prosecution told Coleraine magistrates’ court. It is the first case of its kind in Northern Ireland involving sectarian abuse on a social networking site.

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