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UK Will Not Prosecute Anti-Scientology Picket

By Howard M. Friedman

Friday's London Guardian reports that Crown Prosecution Service has decided it will not prosecute a 16-year old boy for carrying a sign outside the headquarters of the Church of Scientology earlier this month accusing it of being a "dangerous cult". City of London police had issued a summons to the boy after he refused to put down the sign. Police claimed he violated the Public Order Act (as amended by the Racial and Religious Hatred Act of 2006) by inciting religious hatred. The Prosecution Service decided however, that the sign was neither "abusive or insulting" and therefore did not violate the law.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on May 25, 2008 (boomark / email).