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Germany to scrap law restricting insults against foreign heads of state
On Wednesday German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that the country would abolish an “outdated and unnecessary” 19th-century law requiring government permission to prosecute someone accused of insulting a foreign head of state.
This decision comes a year after Berlin accepted the Turkish government’s request to investigate German comic Jan Böhmermann, after the latter satirized Turkey’s...