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Three human rights activists went on trial in Poland yesterday for putting the LGBT rainbow on an image of the Black Madonna, a revered figure in Roman Catholicism.
Elzbieta Podlesna, Anna Prus and Joanna Gzyra-Iskandar face up to two years in prison if found guilty of desecration and offending religious sentiment.
During protests in 2019, they replaced the halos in the icon of the Black Madonna and baby Jesus with the LGBT rainbow flag.
The activists said they were rallying against what they saw as the hostility of Poland s influential Catholic Church toward LGBT people.
A group of supporters with rainbow flags and banners reading The Rainbow Gives No Offense gathered outside the court.
Three human rights activists have gone on trial in Poland for alleged desecration and offending religious sentiment by adding the LGBT rights movement’s rainbow symbol to posters of a revered Roman Catholic icon and publicly displaying the altered image
Polish media identified the other defendants as Anna Prus and Joanna Gzyra-Iskandar.
The activists could face up to two years in prison if convicted on charges of offending religious sentiment and desecration of Poland‘s most-revered icon, the Mother of God of Czestochowa, popularly known as the Black Madonna of Czestochowa.
The original icon has been housed at the Jasna Gora monastery in the city of Czestochowa since the 14th century.
A group of supporters with rainbow flags and banners reading “The Rainbow Gives No Offense” gathered outside the court. A verdict was not expected Wednesday.
Podlesna was arrested in an early morning police raid on her apartment in 2019. She was detained for several hours and questioned over the posters of the icon that were placed around Plock. A court later said the detention was unnecessary and ordered damages equaling some $2,000 be awarded to her.