Supreme Court rejects appeal by "vagina kayak" artist over obscenity

Supreme Court rejects appeal by "vagina kayak" artist over obscenity

Megumi Igarashi, who works under the pseudonym "Rokudenashi-ko" (good-for-nothing girl), holds a banner reading "unjust ruling" in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on July 16, 2020. The top court rejected earlier in the day an appeal made by the artist against a lower court ruling that found her guilty of obscenity for distributing 3-D scans of her own genitalia to supporters in 2013 and 2014.

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