united-kingdom scotland
Charges I may face for limerick
<p>I wrote a poem laughing at Recep Tayyip Erdogan as part of a contest for the Spectator magazine. Only when they published the winner I realised someone in Germany is being prosecuted for doing the same.</p>

<p>What charges am I facing? I live in Scotland.</p>

<p>Jan Böhmermann faces prosecution in Germany for violating their penal code section 103 as discussed <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/14010/under-which-german-laws-is-it-illegal-to-mock-foreign-rulers">here</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Lèse-majesté</a> is not a crime in the UK, though apparently it was a common law crime in Scotland until 2010 (though not prosecuted since 1715). Though there is always the possibility of a defamation lawsuit, depending on what you say. </p>
