In the United States, the Supreme Court has steadfastly struck down legislative attempts to prohibit blasphemy out of concern that there would be a natural tendency to favour one religion over another. [...] The ECHR upheld the seizure, focusing on the provocative nature of the portrals of leading religious figures. [...] However, the ECHR has also noted that freedom of religion is primarily a right against the State rather than against private persons and that in a free society believers “must tolerate and accept the denial by others of their religious beliefs and even the propagation by others of doctrines hostile to their . [...] As the UN Human Rights Committee, the body responsible for overseeing implementation of the ICCPR, stated in a General Comment on freedom of expression in 2011: Prohibitions of displays of lack of respect for a religion or other belief system, including blasphemy laws, are incompatible with the Covenant, except in the. [...] Among other things, it has noted that in many countries only the main religion is protected (this was the situation in the Choudhury case noted above); that such laws almost always protect religion as opposed to belief, thereby discriminating against atheists and non- ‐theists; and that such laws are often us.
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