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An 8 page outline of this 1995 case weighing freedom of artistic expression against freedom of religion. Considering the suppression of a film considered blasphemous by the Orthodox Catholic Church, the court decided artistic freedom allowed the organization by law was necessarily limited by the right of the Church to freedom of religion, that the duty of the State was to protect the existence of a society based on order and tolerance. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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The Freedom of Expression, as guaranteed by the Human Convention of Human Rights, often comes into conflict with the rights of an individual to freedom
of thought, conscience and religion. This is particularly true when that right to the freedom of expression is tested in the expression of controversial ideas, especially when those ideas
pertain to religious beliefs. Otto-Preminger-Institut v. Austria encapsulates these very concerns. Otto-Preminger-Institut is a private non-profit organization the goal of which
is states as the promotion of "creativity, communication and entertainment through the audiovisual media (Mediator Online, 2003). The organization operates the "Cinematograph" cinema in Innsburck as well as involves
itself in a number of other pursuits. Controversy arose with the organizations 1985 announcement that it planned to run the Werner Schroeter film "Das Liebeskonzil" ("Council in Heaven") (Mediator
Online, 2003). This announcement, published in an information bulletin and displayed publicly around Innsbruck read, in part, that the story line was based largely on the writers trial and
conviction for blasphemy in 1895 and that: "Trivial imagery and absurdities of the Christian creed
are targeted in a caricatural mode and the relationship between religious beliefs and worldly mechanisms of oppression is investigated".
Needless to say, the Roman Catholic Church was infuriated as the organizations apparent condemnation of the Catholic religion. The Innsbruck diocese requested that the public
prosecutor press criminal charges against the organization and its manager Dietmar Zingle for "disparaging religious doctrines" (Mediator Online, 2003). The film was consequently seized and when Zingle appealed the
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