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April 14, 2005


Gerhard Haderer Case Overturned

Mocking the absurdity of the case as it came to their attention, a higher court in Greece reversed a conviction of Austrian artist Gerhard Haderer for his book Das Laben des Jesus. Haderer's satirical story depicted a hippie-ish, drug-taking Jesus Christ moving through one miracle after another in absurd fashion. The original ruling had banned the book, declared existing copies by the Greek publisher of the book had to be destroyed, and threatened Haderer with jail time. The case, which had dismayed the cartoonist for what it did to one of his publishing partners and, one imagines, for the chance he could be extradited to Greece through an arrangement of the European Union, had many critics among free speech advocates and fellow artists.
 
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