Sunday, March 10, 2013

Mexico high court rules denigration of sexual orientation not protected speech

[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Mexico [official website, in Spanish] ruled [press release, in Spanish] on Wednesday that certain offensive statements regarding another individual's sexual orientation are not protected under the nation's freedom of expression laws. In a 3-2 decision the Mexican high court held that two derogatory words used in Mexico to describe gay people are hate speech, and are therefore not legally protected. The case concerned a journalist who sued a columnist [AP report] at a different...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/03/mexico-high-court-rules-free-speech-laws-do-not-protect-homophobic-language.php

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