Former Finnish Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen, who has been tried and unanimously acquitted by two courts, has had her free speech case appealed to the country’s Supreme Court. The prosecution calls for tens of thousands in fines.
Räsänen, a medical doctor and active parliamentarian, was first investigated in 2019 for a tweet that questioned the involvement of her church in a Helsinki LGBT ‘Pride’ event, with reference to the Bible’s Book of Romans, chapter 1, verses 24-27: “The men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
