Helsinki Court of Appeals announces Päivi Räsänen case will be reopened

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The case against a Christian politician in Finland for expressing her views on homosexuality will be reopened and could proceed as early as this fall.

Päivi Räsänen won her case when a Finnish court found she acted within the law in expressing her views; however, the Helsinki Court of Appeals has now accepted a prosecutor's complaint and agreed to reopen the case. The controversial saga began with a post on Twitter in 2019, which led to investigations of previous statements by the politician going back more than a decade.

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