Koran burning case ruling rejection of ‘back door blasphemy law’ – campaigners

Hamit Coskun (centre) with supporters at the Royal Courts Of Justice during the CPS appeal (PA) - (PA Wire)

Campaigners have said the High Court has rejected a “wrongheaded attempt to introduce a blasphemy law by the back door” as judges upheld the acquittal of a man who burned a Koran in public.

Hamit Coskun was initially convicted last June of a religiously aggravated public order offence after he held a flaming copy of the Islamic text aloft and shouted “f*** Islam” outside the Turkish embassy on February 13 last year.