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Lars Hedegaard is a Danish journalist and author. He established the Danish Free Press Society in 2004, which was turned into the International Free Press Society in 2009.

Originally a high school teacher, he also worked as a journalist. Lars is known as a critic of Islam. In 2007 he took part in the international counter-jihad conference in Brussels.[4] in 2014, a new animated film that he co-produced entitled Aisha and Muhammad was released. The film focuses on the life of the fifty-year-old Islamic prophet Muhammad and his marriage to a then six-year-old Aisha.

In 2011, he was convicted of hate speech under the Article 266b of the Danish Penal Code, and fined. He had made critical remarks against the Islamic society, which he later clarified that he did not intend to accuse all the Muslims of abusing their children. He appealed the verdict, and in 2012, to which the Supreme Court acquitted him.

Lars stands by his opinions and was voted one of the Top 50 2013 Danish opinion leaders in a survey commissioned by Denmark’s leading daily broadsheet newspaper.