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Ethnic agitation-convicted Oulu city councillor
Junes Lokka has brought another defamation case against a journalist.
This time, Lokka accused Iltalehti journalist
Tommi Parkkonen of defamation, regarding a tweet the journalist posted in April 2019.
In a separate but similar case, journalist
Johanna Vehkoo was earlier this month granted leave to appeal her defamation conviction for calling Lokka a racist and Nazi clown in a 2016 Facebook post.
Iltalehti s Parkkonen characterised his tweet as a primal reaction to the initial verdict in the Vehkoo case, saying he intended to criticise the court s decision. On the same day as Vehkoo was convicted, and in the same court, Lokka was charged with ethnic agitation for which he was later convicted and received 70 day-fines.
The Supreme Court has granted journalist
Johanna Vehkoo leave to appeal a defamation conviction.
In a Facebook post in 2016, Vehkoo called Oulu city councillor
Junes Lokka a racist and Nazi clown, which Oulu District Court ruled in 2019 was an attack on Lokka as a person and not his politics.
The district court ordered Vehkoo to pay a fine 15 income-linked day-fines as well as compensation to Lokka of 200 euros for the suffering he experienced. She was also ordered to cover the complainant s legal fees, which amounted to 6,000 euros.
The Rovaniemi Court of Appeal subsequently upheld the lower court s verdict in a ruling handed down last September.