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A brief history of New Zealand’s now dead blasphemy law

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NEW Zealand no longer has a blasphemy law, having decided yesterday to scrap the archaic offence of blasphemous libel, a ‘crime’ dating back to 1840 which had its origins in Britain. This prompted me to investigate how the law was implemented – and discovered that the only prosecution ever to have taken place occurred in […]

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