Finnish prosecutors said on Thursday that they would not charge a group for publishing controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on a Web site earlier this year.Prosecutor Jorma Kalske found the cartoons had been damaging to Muslim sensitivities, but had not been published with the intent to insult anyone.
The anti-immigration group Suomen Sisu posted the pictures in February after a similar site in neighboring Sweden was shut down.
"I consider it credible that their aim was a kind of protest against the public authorities," Kalske said in a statement on his decision not to prosecute members of Suomen Sisu.
The group calls itself "a revolutionary Finnish nationalist movement" and claims a membership of about 400.
It said on the Web site, which still has a link to the cartoons, that the publication was "the expression of an opinion" prompted by the closure of the Swedish site.
Finland's mainstream media did not publish the pictures, which first appeared in a Danish daily last September and sparked a wave of violent protests by Muslims around the world.
Finland has a small community of about 30,000 Muslims, in a country of 5.3 million people.