{"id":21096,"date":"2021-11-23T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adf.uk\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2024-01-15T13:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:59:51","slug":"kika-nieto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/en-gb\/news\/kika-nieto","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOverjoyed!\u201d: Colombian Social Media star wins censorship case"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Colombian Constitutional Court overturns censorship ruling against Kika Nieto vacating judgment and dismissing the lawsuit<\/li>\n<li>Court fails to address the wider issue and affirm free speech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert; letter-spacing: 0px;\">COLOMBIA<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert; letter-spacing: 0px;\"> (23 November 2021) \u2013 The video in which Colombian YouTuber Kika Nieto shared her beliefs about marriage, should not have been censored \u2013 so ruled the Colombian Supreme Court. After an activist complained about her statement, a national court had denied Nieto\u2019s right to freedom of expression by ordering her to remove the 2018 video. The Constitutional Court has now overturned that decision and dismissed the lawsuit. Neito has thus been cleared of any wrongdoing. Despite the ruling in her favor, Nieto\u2019s legal team expressed disappointment that the Court refused to address the underlying issue of her freedom of expression.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efb4296 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"efb4296\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>\u201cNo one should be censored or fear criminal sanctions for expressing their beliefs. Together with Kika, we are overjoyed that the Court has overturned this censorship ruling. Kika stood strong throughout this ordeal to make the case for everyone\u2019s freedom to share their beliefs. Although Kika is again free to share her convictions, it\u2019s disappointing that the Court decided this case on procedural grounds and failed to address the key issue and affirm freedom of speech for every Colombian. Everyone should be free to share their beliefs in public, and the courts should protect this fundamental freedom,\u201d said Santiago Guevara, counsel for Nueva Democracia, an NGO who with the support of ADF International represented Nieto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Censored for sharing Christian convictions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Answering a follower\u2019s question in a 2018 YouTube video, Nieto shared her beliefs about marriage as between a man and a woman with her millions of followers. She said: \u201cI really hope that everyone who is watching this video knows that not all people have the same opinion and that\u2019s okay. I think that God made us all and created man and created woman for man to be with woman and woman to be with man and that\u2019s it. Whatever we have done after that as man with man and woman with woman, I think it\u2019s not right. However, I do have friends who are gay, I have friends who are lesbian, I love them with all my heart. And if I know one thing and I am completely sure of it, it is that God is love. And he calls me to love people. Without judging them.\u201d*<\/p>\n<p>Tom\u00e1s Henr\u00edquez, Director of Advocacy in Latin America and the Caribbean for ADF International, a human rights organization supporting Kika Nieto\u2019s case stated: \u201cIf we value a free society, protecting the right to speak freely is paramount. We welcome the Court\u2019s decision to overturn Nieto\u2019s censorship ruling. Yet, we regret that it did not address the underlying issue of censorship and affirm everyone\u2019s right to speak freely. We must always choose debate over censorship. Ultimately, people and democracy suffer when voices are silenced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supreme Court affirmed Nieto\u2019s free speech in previous ruling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a previous case that arose from the same video, the Constitutional Court had ruled that Nieto\u2019s speech on marriage is constitutionally protected. However, another activist took Nieto to court, complaining that this same comment about marriage was offensive and discriminatory. A lower court considered the video to contain \u201chate speech\u201d and ordered its removal from YouTube. The Constitutional Court has now overturned that decision.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of ADF International, the Colombian NGO Nueva Democracia \u2014 a civil society platform advocating for freedom of expression and other fundamental rights \u2014 represented Nieto in this case.<\/p>\n<p>*translated from Spanish<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian Constitutional Court overturns censorship ruling against Youtuber Kika Nieto, vacating judgment and dismissing the lawsuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[898],"class_list":["post-21096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-uk-en-gb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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