Loli, It's Okay In Sweden

The Supreme Court of Sweden has overturned the child pornography charges of manga translator Simon Lundström on Friday, after ruling that manga depicting children in sexual poses are not child pornography.

A lower district court in Uppsala had convicted Lundström for 51 images on his computer in June 2010 and fined him 25,000 kronor (about US$3,900). The Svea Court of Appeal upheld the conviction on 39 of the images in January 2011, but lowered the punishment to 5,600 kronor (US$800). The Supreme Court then heard the case and overturned both lower courts' decisions.

Lundström told the TT news agency, "I'm obviously very relieved, in part because it makes life easier for me personally, but most of all I'm generally relieved for Sweden as a whole. It would have been very hard for me to relate to Sweden as a country if it turned out to be a place that prohibited certain expressions of the imagination."

The Supreme Court explained that while it considered the drawings to be pornographic depictions of children, they were nevertheless imaginary. "The criminalization of possession of the drawings would otherwise exceed what is necessary with regard to the purpose which has led to the restriction on freedom of expression and freedom of information."

The Local, a Swedish news source, reported that the "pastel-colored pictures [showing] children in different states of undress" were displayed on large screens in the Supreme Court. While the court ruled that one of the images could be considered a depiction of child ponography for being "sufficiently realistic," it also ruled that possession of the image was defensible.
-ANN

Sweden seems like a cool country.

thats pretty legit

Loli is cp everywhere in the modern world. Just depends on how the cp laws are worded and if a court wants to try it. If this is correct then sweden just broke though the gray area and cited a case for the future of loli lovers to try to base there upcoming cases everywhere in the world. Loli is still cp in japan also.. just they don't try them unless it special. Like holland and weed.

though i don't get the reason as to how it would induce child rape, im glad it's gone now. personally i look at it from time to time but im still sane enough not to touch a real one so i find it rather ridiculous to ban something that's not even real or anything you can apply to real life from a fictional work for that matter.

They'll never find my loli!

OnT: I agree, Sweden is pretty cool.

I was just reading about this yesterday, hopefully this a step in the right direction towards the "drawn characters arent real people" argument.

Thanks to this, I have become more proud of my country, (Just so you know i'm from Sweden).

Alright, everyone. Get your immigration papers for Sweden. Meet you there.

Welcome to the club.

This.

This from the country that banned Dead or Alive Dimensions because you can see the 17yo characters panties.

I don't think this has been played out just yet.

Trust me, if the Judge feels like being an asshole, he will still sentence you with charges of CP... Even though loli is not actually CP...

I don't think these crooks in government actually give one shit about protecting children. They just want an excuse to put people in jail, and right now they're simply having a hard time defending that.

Obviously.

Do you have free internet there still?

Nah, from what I understand from the court ruling, most stuff is technically still illegal. The images, http://www.mediafire.com/?yulk4e0ygbabb87 just were extremely soft core or ugly. And you have to be a utter retard (like the district court and court of appeals) for ever thinking that it's child porn. A highly doubt that anyone here would even deem the fap worthy.

In other words, not a victory for expressive freedom.

In the state of Oregon in the United States, it is legal there to look at child porn on a computer, as long as you're not the one uploading it, and you are not downloading it to your computer. That's some messed up shit. It was a law passed my the voters.

i have been saying that for years.

My mom is a swedish. No wonder why I'm a pedophile.