Dan Park

Dan Park (born May 4, 1968)[1] is a Swedish street artist who has been arrested, fined, and sentenced to jail for hate speech in Swedish Courts several times for his art.

In 2011, Park was arrested for a collage poster depicting an Afro-Swede [2] student activist naked and in chains along with text saying "Our negro slave has run away", and the activist's personal contact information. Park singled out the student activist for reporting a student party with people in blackface. Park was convicted of defamation and racial agitation, and given a suspended sentence, fined, and ordered to pay damages.[3]

In 2014, Park was arrested at the opening of an exhibition of his collage posters, and was sentenced to 6 months in jail for incitement to racial agitation and defamation, and ordered to pay a total of 60,000 kronor ($8,700) in damages to four people depicted in his pictures.[4] Additionally, the court ordered 9 of his works destroyed.[5]

Park himself insists that his works are not racist, but a satiric commentary on current events and against political correctness in Sweden. Park is mainly notable for the intense public debate about freedom of speech that his case and works have generated, especially in Denmark, where his works have been exhibited in the Parliament building.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Birth data from Ratsit.se".
  2. ↑ "Swedish artist jailed for 'race hate'". The Local.
  3. ↑ "Artist avoids jail for 'negro slave taunt'". The Local.
  4. ↑ "Swedish artist jailed for 'race hate' pictures". The Local. 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2014-11-05.
  5. ↑ "Sentenced: Swedish Artist Dan Park "Incited Against an Ethnic Group"".
  6. ↑ "Dan Parks forbudte billeder vises på Christiansborg i dag". Politiken.


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