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Brickbat: Injury for Insult

Charles Oliver | 4.12.2016 4:00 AM


Large image on homepages | Thomas Richter
(Thomas Richter)

German prosecutors have opened an investigation into TV host

Jan Böhmermann
Credit: Thomas Richter

Jan Böhmermann for reading a satirical poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on his show. Böhmermann is accused of violating a German law against insulting foreign governments or their leaders.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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