Wife of ex-PM loses case over “pornographic” comic strip

The wife of former Czech prime minister Jiří Paroubek has lost a legal battle against the publisher of the magazine Reflex over a comic strip depicting the couple. The Supreme Court rejected Petra Paroubková’s argument that drawings of her and her husband in bed were pornographic. The judge handling the case said Mrs Paroubková had herself chosen to enter public life and the depictions did not have the nature of pornography; comics used exaggeration as a device, and this edition of the satirical strip Zelený Raoul was aimed more at her husband than her.