A judge in Valladolid has condemned the satirical magazine El Jueves for violating the right to honour of Polonia Castellanos and the foundation she presides, Abogados Cristianos. According to the ruling, the magazine must compensate the organisation with 2,000 euros and its president with 4,000 euros for calling the members of this group an asshole ".
It is reported that, of all the cartoons and texts of the four pages dedicated to Christian Lawyers and Polonia Castellanos, the condemnatory sentence, which the magazine will appeal, is motivated by this single sentence in the last cartoon, considering that it violates the honour of the organisation and its president:
"So yes, assholes, but not assholes of fools, but assholes of evil, of mean, selfish people who only seek to muddy the common good".
In April 2025, the Spanish Christian Lawyers Foundation sued the satirical magazine El Jueves for violation of the right to honour. It claimed 12,000 euros for "offending", "humiliating" and "ridiculing" its chiringo and its president, Polonia Castellanos. They asked for 6,000 euros for her and another 6,000 euros for the organisation.
The reason was a series of cartoons published in the January 2025 issue 2,406, dedicated to the"Assholes of 2024".
In this collective's humorous nomination for Asshole of the Year, they satirised the compulsive activity of this ultra entity of Yisus' self-proclaimed public defenders in suing half the world for any kind of bullshit.
In 4 pages, the cartoonist Don Julio reviewed some of the many(almost all) losses of this group of eternally offended Christians and made a satirical portrait of Polonia Castellanos.
This is not the first clash of Yisus' lawyers with this cartoonist. On 17 May 2024, the foundation announced a lawsuit against Julio A. Serrano,"Don Julio" and the publishing house Fandogamia for the comic "El niño Jesús no odia a los mariquitas" for alleged crimes of "provocation to discrimination and hatred, and sexual provocation". In November 2024, the complaint was dismissed. The judge ordered the dismissal of the case as "no offence was found to have been committed".
The plaintiffs considered, among other things, that the text bubbles in the cartoons that El Jueves dedicated to Castellanos contained "invented phrases".
Let's finish. Jokes with invented phrases. What's next? Cartoons? The lawyers of the almighty were not given the studies to understand the resources of humour and the use of hyperbole as a figure of speech. Nah, it's irony. Of course they know it, but they don't give a damn. Their only mission is to scare people and present jokes as "crimes" against Christians, their feelings and beliefs and that they are "persecuted", as well as trying to impose the discouragement effect with an abusive use of the judicial system.
You can read issue 2.406 of El Jueves online with your library card at eBiblio or buy a paper copy here.
Related, a very long string of complaints:
Humour in trouble, a collection of cases
Cases of cartoonists who have had problems of some importance because of their cartoons or satirical illustrations. There are also some stories of other people who, without being cartoonists, have got into trouble for sharing them.
