Tuesday, May 13, 2008

News at Eleven: A Mexican poet has been fined

about US$5 (¤3.25) for desecrating the country's flag by writing a poem about using it to wipe up urine and excrement.

Poet Sergio Witz Rodriguez published the poem in a magazine in the southern state of Campeche in 2000 and could have faced as many as four years in prison under a law protecting the flag and national insignia.

from International Herald-Tribune: Poet fined for insulting Mexican flag, calls ruling threat to free speech

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