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From The Times
July 18, 2006

Court approves paedophile party

A political party formed by paedophiles cannot be banned because it has the same right to exist as any other party and is protected by democratic freedoms, a Dutch court has ruled. The Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity party (PNVD) was launched in May to campaign for a reduction in the age of consent from 16 to 12 and the legalisation of child pornography and sex with animals, provoking widespread outrage in the Netherlands.

The Solace group, which campaigns against paedophiles, sought a ban on the group, asserting that the party infringed the rights of children, and that its ideas were a threat to social norms and values in a democratic state. But a court in The Hague held otherwise.

“The freedom of expression, the freedom of assembly and the freedom of association . . . should be seen as the foundations of the democratic rule of law, and the PNVD is also entitled to these freedoms,” the court said in a statement.

No Kidding, a group campaigning for children’s rights, said that the right to freedom of expression was not absolute and called on the Dutch Government to act. (Reuters)

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