2009/11/27 Anirudh Bhati <[email protected]>: > Now Wikimaniacs wouldn't be able to wear communist apparel / insignia in > Poland. > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6934211.ece >
Wearing is still legal. What was made illegal is producing, trading and distributing symbols of totalitarian political ideas, except if it is made for artistic, scientific, or cultural reasons. The art 256 of Polish Crimal Code was before novelisation: 256: § 1 Who publicly promotes a fascist or a totalitarian state regime or incites to hatred against different national, ethnic, racial, religious, or disbielief based distinctions, is subject to the penalty, the restriction of liberty or imprisonment of up to 2 years. and now there are two more paragraphs: § 2 The same penalty shall apply for those who produces, preserves, acquires, presents, carries or sends printing, recording, or other object containing the contents specified in § 1, or as a vehicle for symbolism Fascist, Communist or other totalitarian systems. § 3 Does not commit a criminal act the perpetrator of an action defined in § 2, if it is done for artistic, educational, or scientific purposes. So, if you are wearing a stylisied T-shirt with Che-Guevara or red star and do not sell it or produce in you can always claim that this is just your artistic expression and it is not intended for public promotion of communism as such :-) -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
