{"id":281372,"date":"2016-12-17T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T12:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281372"},"modified":"2020-10-29T07:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:34:06","slug":"madrid-councillor-maestre-acquitted-over-chapel-bra-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/madrid-councillor-maestre-acquitted-over-chapel-bra-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid councillor Maestre acquitted over chapel bra protest"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Yes! The right to be topless everywhere!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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A Spanish court has acquitted on appeal a spokeswoman for Madrid’s city council who was fined for taking her top off inside a chapel during a protest five years ago.<\/p>\n

Rita Maestre, 27, had been ordered to pay 4,380 euros ($4,561; \u00a33,670) for “infringing on freedom of conscience and religious convictions”.<\/p>\n

But an appeal court said her act was disrespectful but not desecration.<\/p>\n

Some of her colleagues went completely topless during the protest.<\/p>\n

The group of some 50 people burst into the chapel at Madrid’s Complutense University and yelled anti-Vatican and women’s rights slogans.<\/p>\n

They said the protest was against the Roman Catholic Church’s “antidemocratic and chauvinistic” positions.<\/p>\n

Ms Maestre, a councillor with the anti-austerity party Podemos and former student of the far-left party’s leader Pablo Iglesias, took off her T-shirt, showing her bra.<\/p>\n

The protest sparked an outcry in Spain, and Ms Maestre became a target of Spanish conservatives.<\/p>\n

In March, a court found her guilty and imposed the fine. But an appeal court cancelled the sentence, considering that “inadequate clothing or certain inappropriate gestures” were not “an act of desecration”.<\/p>\n

On Twitter,\u00a0she said: “Good news for freedom of expression. I’m happy, satisfied and proud. Thanks from my heart to those who have followed me these years.”<\/p>\n

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