Taipei prosecutors said yesterday they would appeal a ruling by the Taipei District Court in which artist Lin Guo-wu (林國武) was acquitted of obscenity over one of his drawings that depicted President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) having sexual intercourse with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The district court found Lin not guilty on Tuesday.
The ruling said Lin had denied violating “offenses against sexual morality (妨害風化罪),” saying all his pictures were art and were done to promote jiujiu shengong (九九神功)a type of qigong (氣功)in which practitioners hang and lift heavy objects such as bricks with their genitals.
The genitals were covered up in the pictures, so the works were not obscene, Lin told the court.
The ruling said judges had decided the pictures were done to express Lin’s political beliefs and belief in jiujiu shengong, and were not obscene, so they found Lin not guilty.
Taipei prosecutors said they would appeal thye ruling.
Taipei County Councilor King Chieh-shou (金介壽) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) last year received a postcard from Lin showing the image of Ma and Clinton.
Lin, 48, had also drawn crude pictures of former presidents Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).
The postcard King received depicted Ma standing on two bricks having sexual intercourse with Clinton using jiujiu shengong.
King reported the matter to the police, saying that the postcards insulted the president.
Police originally thought Lin was a political extremist obsessed with politics, but later discovered that his works have also used Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) and the spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, as subjects.
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