Switzerland
In Switzerland, Article 261 of the penal code titled "Attack on the freedom of faith and the freedom to worship" (Störung der Glaubens- und Kultusfreiheit) criminalizes:
- public and malicious insult or mockery of religious convictions of others
- malicious desecration objects of religious veneration
- malicious prevention, disruption or public mockery of an act of worship
- malicious desecration of a place or object that is intended for a religious ceremony or an act of worship
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