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Yesterday, the Free Speech Union said the ruling sends a message that ‘anti-religious protests, however offensive to true believers, must be tolerated’.
Lord Young, director of the union, which helped fund Mr Coskun’s legal case, said: ‘Had the verdict been allowed to stand it would have sent a message to religious fundamentalists that all they need to do to enforce their blasphemy codes is to violently attack the blasphemer, thereby making him or her guilty of having caused public disorder.’
Olivia Christie, Daily Mail, 10th October 2025.