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Animanga in the News: 6/24/11

+ posted by saladesu in Anime/Manga News on Jun 24, 2011 17:30
Here you will find a run down of today's anime and manga news! If anything sent waves through the anime and manga world today, you'll find it in this post! By the way, I'm saladesu, one of the translators and global moderators of MH, and I'll be posting a post like this every day (as much as possible, anyway). Look forward to them ;)


Defense Fund to Oppose Canadian Manga Child Porn Case
U.S. man charged with child pornography for bringing manga into Canada.


The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) announced on Friday that it will support the defense of an American man who is on child pornography charges for bringing manga on his computer into Canada. The man, whose name is being withheld at the request of his legal counsel, is a computer programmer in his 20s.

The CBLDF reported that the man was flying into Canada to visit his friend when Canadian customs searched his belongings. A customs officer found images on the man's laptop computer and characterized them as child pornography. The CBLDF emphasizes that the images "are all comics in the manga style" and not photographic material.

The man was charged with both possessing and importing child pornography. Canadian law dictates a minimum prison sentence of one year (and a maximum of 10 years) for an indictment and conviction on a child pornography importing charge. A summary conviction without indictment or trial would carry a sentence of 90 days to 18 months.

An indictment and conviction on possession of child pornography would carry a sentence of 45 days to five years, while a summary conviction on the same charge would carry a sentence of 14 days to 18 months.

The CBLDF will contribute financially to the man's defense (estimated to cost C$150,000 or about US$152,000) and provide legal assistance. A similar Canadian organization called Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund is also contributing.

In the CBLDF's press release, Executive Director Charles Brownstein said that the case "underscores the dangers facing everyone traveling with comics, and it can establish important precedents regarding travelers rights. It also relates to the increasingly urgent issue of authorities prosecuting art as child pornography."

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) posted the policies that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) uses for searching travelers' belongings last year. The agency's presentation described anime as child pornography "only if characters are explicitly depicted as children involved in sex acts e.g. lack of secondary sexual characteristics, breast development, pubic hair," although this distinction is not in the Canadian laws.

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Comments
#1. by scav (MH's Most Passionate Member)
Posted on Jun 25, 2011
this case is ridiculous, they have nothing better to do.
#2. by molokidan (Hidden Boss ΣΣ(゚Д゚;)ナヌッ)
Posted on Jun 29, 2011
Wait wait...so let me get this straight. The customs officer actually booted up his laptop and searched through it deep enough to find his hentai photo stash or something? That's pretty insane.
#3. by mllhild ()
Posted on Jul 1, 2011
Does anyone know what exactly was on the laptop? Since they only say that it was considerated childporn but since everything that envolves the sexual act with persons without developed secundery sexual caracteristics is considered childporn there apears a big problem for manga because there are only two
1. public hair - as other hair on the body it is almost never drawn
2. developed breast - plain chested caracter?

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