Artist's acquittal a victory for reason

The artist Dorota Nieznalska has been acquitted on appeal of charges of having insulted religious feeling. In an exhibition she had shown a cross bearing a picture of a penis while a video of a man training in a fitness studio played in the background. The liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza is delighted: "Yesterday's judgement in the Gdánsk courtroom was a toast to freedom. Dorota Nieznalska was declared innocent. After eight years! This judgement is a celebration of freedom and reason. It is a victory for critical art - which has no intention of insulting anyone - over politics, which denigrates free thinkers and imputes them with the worst intents. The League of Polish Families [the Catholic nationalist party that brought the charges] did not attack Dorota Nieznalska personally, it just sees enemies everywhere it looks."

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