A German satirist could face three years in prison for a poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a freedom of speech case that could turn against chancellor Angela Merkel.
Jan Boehmermann, a comedian and a presenter on Germany's main TV channel, the ZDF public broadcaster, could be charged with "insulting a representative of a foreign state" after a prosecutor in Mainz, where ZDF is based, launched an investigation.
Under the German criminal code it is an offence to ...
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