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Croatia | Municipal Court in Pula - Pola / Općinski sud u Puli - Pola | 2021 | Croatia / Municipal Court In Pula - Pola / K-104/21 | Religion | Muslims | <p>The perpetrator was found guilty of having committed a criminal offense against personal freedom - threat. The perpetrator threatened three people of the Muslim religion. Among others, he stated that he would kill them and their family, bury them where the mosque is being built, that he would kill all their friends, that he would set fire to the mosque, while approaching the victims with a telescopic baton.</p> | View more |
Croatia | Municipal Court in Dubrovnik / Općinski sud u Dubrovniku | 2020 | Croatia / Municipal Court In Dubrovnik / 4K-316/20-23 | Religion | Muslims | The perpetrator was found guilty of having committed a criminal offense against personal freedom - threat as described in the Criminal Code art. 139. The perpetrator on first occasion told to A.H. knowing that the person is Muslim: "This is my homeland, this is not your homeland and I will send you away from here for good", on the second occasion: "I will kill you using a gun, bullet in the head ..." and on the third "I will take a gun and blow one bullet into each of… | View more |
Croatia | Misdemeanor Court of Zagreb (Prekršajni sud u Zagrebu) | 2019 | Croatia / Misdemeanor Court in Zagreb / 89. Pp J-3155/2019 | Race/Ethnicity | Muslims | Three defendants were charged that on 28 Sept 2019 in a bar in Zagreb they disturbed public order by pushing each other and verbally clashing, thus committing a violation of Art. 13 and 17 of the Act on Misdemeanors against Public Order and Peace. The first defendant is acquitted of the accusation that during the same incident he insulted the third defendant with the words: "Fuck your Muslim mother, balije" which is a violation of Art. 25 par. 1 of the Anti-Discrimination Act. | View more |
Croatia | Misdemeanor Court in Zagreb (Prekršajni sud u Zagrebu) | 2019 | Croatia / Misdemeanor Court in Zagreb / Pp J-3220/2019-10 | Race/Ethnicity | Muslims | The defendant was sentenced to a fine for HRK 1,000.00 for a violation of Art. 25 par. 1 of the Anti-Discrimination Act. The defendant insulted his daughter's ex- extramarital husband on the religious grounds with the words "Why are you looking at me like that, motherfucker, you Muslim shit" which caused him a sense of anxiety and disgust. | View more |
Croatia | Municipal Court in Osijek, Misdemeanor section (Općinski sud u Osijeku, Prekršajni odjel) | 2019 | Croatia / Municipal Court in Osijek, Misdemeanor section / 89. Pp J-1066/2019-10 | Nationality | Muslims | The defendant, while intoxicated, shouted and verbally abused the victim by insulting her national/ethnic backround with the words: ""Get fucked by your father you Muslim, fuck your mother, go live in Bosnia", which is a violation of Art. 25 par. 1 of the Anti-Discrimination Act. | View more |
Croatia | Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia (Ustavni sud Republike Hrvatske) | 2019 | Croatia / Constitutional Court / U-III-424/2019 U-III-1411/2019 | Migrant status | Refugees & asylum seekers | The Constitutional Court dismissed the complaint of the applicant from Iraq filed on the judgment of the High Administrative Court therefor confirming its judgment and rejecting the applicant request for annulment of the decision rejecting the subsequent request for international or subsidiary protection. The applicant has not proved that he would be a victim of persecution within the meaning of Articles 20 and 21 of the International and Temporary Protection Act. Although the applicant… | View more |
Croatia | Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb | 2018 | Croatia / Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb / no. 2. Km-39/2018 | Nationality, Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity | Refugees & asylum seekers | The case concerns the criminal offence of threat to violence based on hatred towards people of different nationality, ethnic origin or race. More concretely, the defendant (a minor) was indicted for assaulting, harassing and threatening a refugee from Iraq (also a minor), also for sending him threatening messages, that caused the refugee from Iraq strong feelings of fear and anxiety. | View more |
Croatia | Magistrates Court in Rijeka | 2018 | Croatia / Magistrates Court in Rijeka / no. 36. Pp J-1959/16 | Race/Ethnicity, Religion | Muslims | The case is about a misdemeanour offence. The defendant was indicted for harassing his neighbour and neighbour’s wife while intoxicated, yelling profanities like “f**k your Muslim mother”, among others. | View more |
Croatia | Municipal Labour Court in Zagreb | 2018 | Croatia / Municipal Labour Court in Zagreb / no. 6 Pr-636/17-188 | Nationality, Race/Ethnicity, Religion | Muslims | The case is concerning harassment and discrimination in the workplace. During 2011, at his workplace, the victim was received threatening messages such as “Stinking Arab, you are taking away food meant for our children, we will exterminate you all”, messages with a drawn knife and noose with the message under writing “choose” and other disturbing content. The case revolved around whether the employer had ensured sufficient measures of protecting and preventing harassment of their workers. | View more |
Croatia | County Court in Slavonski Brod (Županijski sud u Slavonskom Brodu) | 2015 | Croatia / County Court in Slavonski Brod / Kž-220/14-4 | Race/Ethnicity | Migrants | The High Court convicted two offenders of inflicting grave physical injury with the aggravated circumstance of hate crime. The offenders physically attacked the victim. The court held that the offence was motivated on the basis of race because the offenders directed “discriminatory words” towards the victim. The content of “the discriminatory words” was not disclosed in its ruling. | View more |
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