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An Italian website that published a photo montage of Pope Benedict XVI dressed in a Nazi uniform was told to suspend its activities on Wednesday for offending the Roman Catholic religion, court officials said.

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An Italian website that published a photo montage of Pope Benedict XVI dressed in a Nazi uniform was told to suspend its activities on Wednesday for offending the Roman Catholic religion, court officials said.

Italian website banned over 'Nazi' pope picture

An Italian website that published a photo montage of Pope Benedict XVI dressed in a Nazi uniform was told to suspend its activities on Wednesday for offending the Roman Catholic religion, court officials said.

Rome prosecutors accuse the Indymedia Italia site, which is part of a network of alternative media websites, of causing offense to the Catholic religion by publishing the photo montage alongside the caption "Nazi pope".

Under Italian law, the offense is punishable by up to one year in jail.

The website, which is registered under the name of a Brazilian-based company, Indipendent Media Center, was still online Wednesday evening and showing the controversial image despite the court ruling.

Italy's largest press union, FNSI, slammed the decision as an "unacceptable attack on critical and satirical freedom".

"Indymedia publishes without any form of censorship any kind of electronic message -- that is the basis of its editorial policy," said the FNSI's secretary general, Paolo Serventi Longhi.

"I do not agree with the message's content, in fact I find it very serious, but press freedom cannot be called into question," he added.

Agriculture Minister Gianni Alemanno, a member of the conservative National Alliance, hailed the decision to ban the site, arguing that Indymedia Italia had "reached a pinnacle of offensiveness and vulgarity".

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Comments (52 of 52)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Vicente Navoro: not everyone was in Hitler Jugend	R. Isible	Thu May 05, 2005 02:55
2	White Rose, Sophie Scholl, "Downfall"..is "satire" a blank cheque for lying?	Ciaron	Thu May 05, 2005 10:01
3	the largest selling satirical magazine in Spain "el Jueves" has done the same	iosaf as merrovinginvanjan	Thu May 05, 2005 11:17
4	Counterpunch	Reality Check	Thu May 05, 2005 14:29
5	Downfall	Reality Check	Thu May 05, 2005 14:35
6	Nice one	Con Carroll	Thu May 05, 2005 15:13
7	its a denial of service attack.	iosaf	Thu May 05, 2005 15:19
8	satanic bastards	lucy4	Thu May 05, 2005 17:20
9	Anti-Defamation League not very reliable	Dan	Thu May 05, 2005 17:27
10	ADL	redjade	Thu May 05, 2005 17:31
11	Prominence	Reality Check	Thu May 05, 2005 18:27
12	Christian Churches in America	Arnold	Thu May 05, 2005 18:41
13	Somethings gets lost in the translation...	S	Thu May 05, 2005 20:07
14	Quiet resistance?	R. Isible	Thu May 05, 2005 20:12
15	x	x	Thu May 05, 2005 22:02
16	Anti-Semitism	Reality Check	Fri May 06, 2005 01:26
17	And if I was a theist with a brain	secular leftist	Fri May 06, 2005 02:44
18	Radical Pixies	x	Fri May 06, 2005 11:25
19	Mind now	secular leftist	Fri May 06, 2005 13:46
20	Question for secular leftist	x	Fri May 06, 2005 15:56
21	Secular Leftist	Reality Check	Fri May 06, 2005 18:05
22	The Euro Left shoots itself in the foot trying to run an inquisition on people's spirituality!	Ciaron	Sun May 08, 2005 20:04
23	Complicity and "quiet resistance"	R. Isible	Sun May 08, 2005 22:34
24	I don't want to get into the habit of defending popes, but...	redjade	Sun May 08, 2005 22:54
25	It's not just the past (which is grounds for suspicion)	R. Isible	Sun May 08, 2005 23:17
26	Agree on at least one myth of WW2	R. Isible	Sun May 08, 2005 23:25
27	Response	Ciaron	Mon May 09, 2005 01:02
28	? Risible	?	Mon May 09, 2005 07:42
29	response	atheist (formerly secular leftist)	Mon May 09, 2005 08:16
30	Response	Ciaron	Mon May 09, 2005 09:16
31	Response to "?"	R. Isible	Mon May 09, 2005 17:33
32	Some of the relevant points in previous postings.....	Ciaron	Tue May 10, 2005 02:12
33	Dreary responses to a dreary topic	R. Isible	Tue May 10, 2005 07:36
34	Response	atheist	Tue May 10, 2005 08:21
35	Another repsonse, but quite willing t let this go and move on	Ciaron	Tue May 10, 2005 08:38
36	Predjudice rampant in every line	R. Isible	Tue May 10, 2005 15:20
37	Last response hopefully	Ciaron	Tue May 10, 2005 16:06
38	Making sure you aren't misunderstanding deliberately	R. Isible	Tue May 10, 2005 17:15
39	One more time.....	Ciaron	Tue May 10, 2005 20:38
40	Well not wuite all-How anarchists struggled for free expression beofre cyber space!	Ciaron	Tue May 10, 2005 21:06
41	One last time...	R. Isible	Wed May 11, 2005 18:15
42	WWII NAZI PRIESTS, A MYTH? GIVE ME A BREAK!	Jennifer Scath	Fri May 13, 2005 04:53
43	Don't hold youur self back	Don't	Fri May 13, 2005 14:18
44	Indymedia Italia are SOOOO Brave	toneore	Sun May 15, 2005 05:40
45	You may be right toneore	R. Isible	Sun May 15, 2005 19:09
46	Links	Mark P	Sun May 15, 2005 19:24
47	"...researchers, detectives and psychos."	Jennifer Arnaud	Fri Jun 03, 2005 02:39
48	Big Brave Indymedia Italia	toneore	Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:11
49	RE: Don't hold yourself back	Jennifer Scath	Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:54
50	Scathing remarks!	Ipanema	Tue Jun 21, 2005 13:40
51	Singling out jewish minority is racist	Huanita	Wed Jun 29, 2005 18:56
52	pope benedict dressed as a nazi	regis glais	Fri Jan 06, 2006 02:54

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