The Danish Prison and Probation Service acknowledges errors in the transfer and isolation of Ibi-Pippi, who has received compensation.
Provocative artist Ibi-Pippi Orup Sommer has been successful in a case against the Danish Prison and Probation Service and has received just over 22,500 kroner in compensation.
The Danish Prison Service has acknowledged that there was no basis for sending the artist to solitary confinement or transferring Ibi-Pippi to a closed prison earlier this year.
This is what TV 2 East Jutland writes.
The case began when Ibi-Pippi was transferred from the open prison in Møgelkær to the closed Nyborg Prison due to a work of art.
The management at the prison in Møgelkær believed that the artwork, called ‘Toxic Masculinity’, was sexually offensive to female employees.
The work shows a female prison officer who has unbuttoned her blue uniform shirt. A can of soda is squeezed between her breasts.
Ibi-Pippi was first placed in solitary confinement for two days before the artist was transferred to Nyborg, where the artist spent a month in custody.
After this, Ibi-Pippi was sent to Kragskovhede Prison, which has a closed section, the media writes.
The Danish Probation Service has also acknowledged that the artwork was not offensive, and therefore Ibi-Pippi has also had his sentence reduced by one day.
Ibi-Pippi became nationally known after a conviction for gross vandalism. At the Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Ibi-Pippi had attacked a work by the artist Asger Jorn.
The Supreme Court decided in the summer of 2024 that the sentence should be unconditional imprisonment for one year and six months.
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