Comedian Leo Lens has received more than 8 years in prison for performance, in which he mocked black, LGBT, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups.
In Brazil, stand-up comedian Leo Lens was punished by 8 years and 3 months in prison for the jokes he said on stage back in 2022. The Washington Post reported it.
During the performance, he mocked representatives of various minors – from blacks, disabled people, gays and Jews to evangelists, residents of poor regions of the country and even deaf.
“What show could be more involved? I even rented a translator of a brutal language to insult deaf -mute,” Lins said from the stage back then.
However, the court in San Paulo found him guilty of motivation for racism, religious prejudices and discrimination.
“Freedom of expressing opinions is not completely and unlimited. When confrontation between the basic principle of freedom of expression of opinions and the principles of human dignity and equality -judicial equality occurs, the latter must dominate,” Judge Barbara de Lim Isppi said in the decision.
The comedian has already announced that he will appeal to the verdict. In his appeal on YouTube, he said Brazil was “becoming a country where decisions were made in emotions, and not in dialogue.”
Social opinions are divided: some are called a sentence that is a violation of freedom of speech, others – a fair response to the language of hatred. Both conservatives and some comedians acted in his defense. At the same time, many of the Brazilians are convinced: a joke that is embarrassing to others is no longer humorous, but a mockery.
This is not the first time the lens is in the middle of the scandal. In 2022, he was forced to pay for the child’s mother with autism, and later joked about the child with hydrocephalia.
Earlier it was reported that the member of the funny show, Alkaline Victoria Taran, fell into a scandal for a joke about Ukrainian military widows.
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