I had never heard of the "crime of insult" until this lawsuit and found out it was against the law in Croatia. Now I find out a similar law exists in Japan. WOW!
Several European countries have crime of insult, Poland, Germany, France, Italy and a few others. Germany has 1 year in prison. Italy only for the insult of the head of State. The Netherland for the King. So it is quite common. The probabilities that someone gets imprisoned for this kind of crimes are very remote. For example, the article that regulates the insult in Germany is 12 pages long!!! Just to clarify, in Croatia insult is a crime but from 28 June 2006 these crimes are no longer punishable by imprisonment but are punishable only by a fine (of 90 to 500 daily items).