“Even liberal little Netherlands has laws to protect its rulers’ honor. Intentionally insulting the monarch could earn you up to five years’ imprisonment or a fine, while the same offense against the monarch’s spouse, the heir apparent, the heir apparent’s spouse or the regent carries up to four years behind bars. And these laws don’t just sit gathering dust in the statute books, by the way: in 2007, two people were arrested for separately calling the then Queen Beatrix a ‘w–re,’ while in 2012 another two individuals found themselves with short prison sentences for making statements judged offensive to her dignity.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-12-countries-punish-you-for-insulting-heads-of-state-2014-3/
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