Episode 1632
Strafgesetzbuch section 86a
Thu, 2021-Oct-21 01:41 UTC
Length - 1:49
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With 276,185 views on Wednesday, 20 October 2021 our article of the day is Strafgesetzbuch section 86a.
The German Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code) in section § 86a outlaws "use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations" outside the contexts of "art or science, research or teaching". The law does not name the individual symbols to be outlawed, and there is no official exhaustive list. However, the law has primarily been used to outlaw Nazi, Communist, and Islamic extremist symbols. The law was adopted during the Cold War and notably affected the Communist Party of Germany, which was banned as unconstitutional in 1956, the Socialist Reich Party (banned in 1952) and several small far-right parties.
The law prohibits the distribution or public use of symbols of unconstitutional groups—in particular, flags, insignia, uniforms, slogans and forms of greeting.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:41 UTC on Thursday, 21 October 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Strafgesetzbuch section 86a on Wikipedia.
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