Is flag burning illegal in Lithuania?
Criminal offense
Desecration of Lithuania's national flag is punishable by arrest or up to 2 years in prison.
Lithuania is one of 53 countries classified “Criminal offense” for flag desecration — 79% of the 67 with data. (Also searched as flag burning.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Flag desecration
- Last checked
- 7 July 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Estonia
- Criminal offense Desecrating national flags or symbols in Estonia is punishable by up to one year imprisonment.
- Ukraine
- Criminal offense Ukraine punishes flag desecration with up to one year imprisonment.
- Denmark
- Legal / protected speech It is legal to burn or desecrate the Danish national flag, but not foreign flags.
- Hungary
- Criminal offense Desecration of the Hungarian national flag is illegal.
- Sweden
- Legal / protected speech Sweden decriminalized flag desecration in 1971, though modifying the national flag is forbidden.
- Germany
- Criminal offense Desecrating the German flag or foreign flags is illegal and punishable by imprisonment or fines.
Other laws in Lithuania
- Holocaust Denial
- Criminal offense
- Conversion Therapy
- No ban
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