A Kurdish-Armenian man, Hamit Coskun, who burned a Koran outside Turkey's embassy in the UK, has won an appeal against his conviction for a religiously aggravated public order offence. This ruling was praised by free-speech campaigners, who argued he was being prosecuted for blasphemy.

• Coskun, 51, was initially found guilty in June and fined.
• The judge, Joel Bennathan, stated that "the right to freedom of expression... must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb."
• Blasphemy laws were abolished in England and Wales in 2008.