{"id":353125,"date":"2018-03-21T01:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/youtuber-count-dankula-found-guilty-in-shtposting-case-by-british-court\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T01:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T00:30:02","slug":"youtuber-count-dankula-found-guilty-in-shtposting-case-by-british-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/youtuber-count-dankula-found-guilty-in-shtposting-case-by-british-court\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber \u2018Count Dankula\u2019 Found Guilty in \u2018Sh*tposting\u2019 Case by British Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Scottish YouTube personality Count Dankula \u2014 real name Mark Meechan \u2014 was found guilty at Glasgow Sherrif Court Tuesday of a hate crime, and potentially faces two months in prison after recording a video of his girlfriend\u2019s dog doing Nazi salutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Recess called to await sentencing.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Count Dankula???????????????????????????? (@CountDankulaTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CountDankulaTV\/status\/976082047172259841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reporting from inside the courtroom, journalist and street organiser Tommy Robinson said Meechan had been found guilty of being \u201cGrossly Offensive\u201d under the Communications Act of 2003. Meechan was due to be sentenced Tuesday afternoon but the judge decided to release him on bail, to return to court on the 23rd of April.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Are they going to round up the cast of Monty Python too? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeDankula?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeDankula<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nMhDQQ1okP\">pic.twitter.com\/nMhDQQ1okP<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 The Frog of War (@15Froger15) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/15Froger15\/status\/976088700487483397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The case is over a 2016 YouTube video made by Meechan and published on his comedy Count Dankula page of his girlfriend\u2019s dog Buddha raising its paw in return for a treat, having been trained to respond to phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Buddha\u2019s owner Suzanne Kelly had previously said \u201cHe (Buddha) will lift his paw to virtually anything if he gets a treat for it. We have taught him to lift his paw to food, like ham or cheese,\u201d and that her boyfriend had \u201cnever expressed anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic\u201d views and has \u201calways been very supportive towards minority groups\u201d, reported Herald Scotland before the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking outside the court&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/youtuber-count-dankula-found-guilty-in-sh-tposting-case-by-british-court\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish YouTube personality Count Dankula \u2014 real name Mark Meechan \u2014 was found guilty at Glasgow Sherrif Court Tuesday of a hate crime, and potentially faces two months in prison after recording a video of his girlfriend\u2019s dog doing Nazi salutes. Guilty. Recess called to await sentencing. \u2014 Count Dankula???????????????????????????? (@CountDankulaTV) March 20, 2018 Reporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}