Anti-minaret poster: criminal charges planned against several cities
The committee behind the anti-minaret initiative is filing criminal complaints against all cities that ban the display of the referendum poster. SVP National Council member Lukas Reimann made this announcement on Tele Züri. The criminal complaints will be filed in the respective cities that ban the posters. In addition to Basel, these include, for example, Lausanne, Yverdon, and Montreux.
In its appeal to the judges, the initiative committee cites the constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression. Political maneuvers that restrict the democratic formation of opinion should not be permitted, Reimann told Tele Züri.
In a communiqué, Publicité Romande regrets the ban on the poster on the grounds of freedom of political and public expression. It positions itself with a sentence from Voltaire: "I do not agree with what you say, but I am committed to allowing you to say it." The political public sphere is only one of citizens if it allows a great democratic debate and refuses moral hygiene or censorship. Citizens in a 700-year-old democracy are free and mature, and the public media should be given their freedom of expression and citizens their freedom to think.
In a communiqué, Publicité Romande regrets the ban on the poster on the grounds of freedom of political and public expression. It positions itself with a sentence from Voltaire: "I do not agree with what you say, but I am committed to allowing you to say it." The political public sphere is only one of citizens if it allows a great democratic debate and refuses moral hygiene or censorship. Citizens in a 700-year-old democracy are free and mature, and the public media should be given their freedom of expression and citizens their freedom to think.
