In Sekmadienis Ltd v Lithuania [2018] ECHR 112, the applicant company complained about being fined for advertising clothes using references to Jesus and Mary.

Background

In late 2012 the company ran a campaign advertising its clothes which used a male and female model with halos, the man in jeans and with tattoos and the woman in a white dress and a string of beads. The ads were followed by the captions, “Jesus, what trousers!”, “Dear Mary, what a dress!” and “Jesus and Mary, what are you wearing!”. Continue reading →