Danish Court Issues First Conviction Under New ‘Quran Law’
16th May 2025
A Danish court on Friday for the first time meted out a verdict in the first criminal case using the country’s new law prohibiting “improper treatment of a religious text.” The court sentenced Islamism critic Rasmus Paludan and one of his associates to each pay a fine of DKK10,000 (just over €1,300) for destroying copies of the Quran at Folkemødet, a civic festival aimed at fostering open debate, in Allinge, Bornholm, last summer.