The Danish Minister of Justice questions the very basis of the previous High Court decision

The day before the Supreme Court ruling on the T-shirt case, the Danish Minister of Justice questions the very basis of the previous High Court decision.

In Danish parliament, Minister of Justice Brian Mikkelsen (Conservative Party) in answering a question from the Red-Green Alliance clearly contradicts the prosecutor in the High Court trial against Fighters+Lovers.

In 2008, the prosecutor succeeded in convincing the High Court that the level of democratic rights in Israel and Colombia was not to be considered in an assessment of action by resistance movements. This lead to prison sentences for the six indicted in the trial. This is contradicted in today’s statement from Minister of Justice Brian Mikkelsen. In his answer, he accepts that a concrete assessment of the context in which the actions of liberation movements are carried out must be conducted.

According to the defence lawyer Thorkild Høyer, who represents Fighters+Lovers: “This is a bomb under the entire basis of the T-shirt Trial”.

March 25th 2009: Ruling of Supreme Court at 12 a.m.