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Added: Feb 14, 2012
Application that 1946 book Tintin in the Congo intended to incite racial hatred rejected, but Congolese complainant plans appeal
A Belgian court has rejected an application to ban a colonial-era book about the Congolese adventures of the cartoon character Tintin for breaching racism laws.
Documents from the court of first instance in Brussels show that it did not believe the 1946 edition of Tintin in the Congo was intended to incite racial hatred, a criteria when deciding if something breaks Belgium's racism laws. The decision was issued late on Friday.
The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by the Belgian artist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé, has gained renewed, global popularity in the past year after Hollywood director Steven Spielberg made an animated film about the intrepid boy journalist and his little white dog Snowy