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Slovakia | District Court Martin | 2019 | Slovakia / District Court Martin / 13T/175/2017 | Race/Ethnicity, Religion | Muslims | The case concerns online incitement to hatred against persons of Islamic religion. In 2016 unknown author posted a picture of a building depicting the residence of the Association of Muslims in the middle Slovakia and corresponding phone numbers with a commentary: “They have a mosque in Martin. Not with minaret, but still they have.” Defendant commented on this post: “If I find out, where they meet, I´m willing to join and f…k them out of there. What an insolence to do…We have Matica (name of… | View more |
Slovakia | District Court Žilina (Okresný súd Žilina) | 2016 | Slovakia / District Court Žilina / 29T/71/2015 | Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Race/Ethnicity, Nationality | Muslims, Migrants, Third country nationals, Refugees & asylum seekers | The defendant made a public advertisement in 2015 offering a job stating - "shooting of immigrants in the accommodation facility for 25 Eur/person". In addition, he published a video on his social media profile voicing hateful speech against migrants, specifically Muslims and people of migrant origin (including Syrians and Libyans). | View more |
Slovakia | Regional Court Bratislava | 2017 | Slovakia / Regional Court Bratislava/1To/68/2017 | Religion | Muslims | The case concerns a verbal attack on a Muslim woman in a public space. Perpetrator tried to pull down her hijab while shouting that "scarves do not belong in Slovakia". District Court Bratislava assessed the case as a misdemeanour rather than a criminal offense and referred the case to the District Office Bratislava (case 2T-8-2017). This resolution was appealed by the District Prosecutor´s Office arguing that the act was clearly an ethnically and racially motivated hate crime. The… | View more |
Slovakia | Regional Court in Bratislava | 2016 |
Slovakia / Regional Court in Bratislava Šamko, P. (2016), 'Prime Minister, Freedom of Speech and a Compact Muslim Community' (Predseda vlády, sloboda prejavu a ucelená moslimská komunita), Právne listy |
Religion | Muslims | The complainant in the criminal complaint brought to the Prosecutor´s Office argued that the Slovak Prime Minister committed a crime of public defamation; incitement to hatred and intimidation. The complaint referred to public statements of the PM calling for preventing the formation of a "compact Muslim community" and stating "we do not want our women to be harassed in public space". The Regional Prosecutor refused the criminal complaint. | View more |
Slovakia | Sepcialized Criminal Court | 2020 | Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court/3T/16/2020 ECLI:SK:SSPK:2020:9520100124.2 | Race/Ethnicity | Muslims | The perpetrator repeatedly published and shared on Facebook posts, videos and other information sympathizing with the Nazi regime and information expressing hatred against Jews, migrants (including Muslims). By this decision, the Specialized Criminal Court approved the agreement between the prosecutor and the accused on the punishment. | View more |
Slovakia | Sepcialized Criminal Court | 2020 | Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court/1T/24/2020 | Race/Ethnicity, Religion | Muslims | The perpetrator repeatedly published and shared on Facebook information against migrants, islamic religion and Muslims. The information published by the perptrator containd incitement to hatred and violence. By this decision, the Specialized Criminal Court approved the agreement between the prosecutor and the accused on the punishment. | View more |
Slovakia | Specialized Criminal Court | 2020 | Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court/2T/7/2020 ECLI:SK:SSPK:2020:9520100042.1 | Race/Ethnicity | Black people or of African origin, Muslims | The case concerns online hate speech published on perpetrator´s Facebook profile. Hate speech targeted mainly Roma, but also migrants (it seems migrants of dark complexion or African origin) and Muslims. Perpetrator´s posts on Facebook also spreaded extremist materials referring to Nazi symbolics and symbolics of the Slovak state that existed during the WW II. The Prosecution did not address hate speech and incitement to violence and hatred. The perpetrator was only accussed and based on… | View more |
Slovakia | Specialized Criminal Court | 2020 | Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court/3T/21/2020 ECLI:SK:SSPK:2020:9520100157.1 | Race/Ethnicity, Religion | Black people or of African origin, Muslims, Migrants, Refugees & asylum seekers | The case concerns online hate speech published on perpetrator´s Facebook profile. Hate speech targeted mainly Roma, but also migrants (it seems migrants of dark complexion or African origin) and Muslims. Perpetrator´s posts on Facebook also posessed and disseminated extremist materials referring to Nazi symbolics (images, Nazi music recordings etc.). The prosecution however only accused him of posession and dissemination of extremist materials, not of hate speech or incitement to violence and… | View more |
Slovakia | Specialized Criminal Court (Špecializovaný trestný súd) | 2022 | Slovakia/Specialized Criminal Court/ 11T/6/2022 ECLI: ECLI:SK:SSPK:2022:9522100174.1 | Religion | Muslims | A case where the accused verbally assaulted the victim because he thought he looked like a Muslim. The accused threatened the victim with violence and also threatened to kill all Muslims. The accused also subsequently punched the victim. According to the Court, the accused committed the offence of making dangerous threats under section 360 (d) of the Criminal Code, with reference to section 140(e) of the Criminal Code (the crime was committed with a specific motive which was the hatred against… | View more |
Slovakia | Specialized Criminal Court (Špecializovaný trestný súd) | 2022 | Slovakia/Specialized Criminal Court/ 6T/6/2022 ECLI:SK:SSPK:2022:9522100142.1 | Religion | Muslims | The case concerns a man who shared and published on Facebook information against Muslims, persons of African origin and migrants to Europe. He threatened with violence to them and expressed incitement to hatred. He did it repeatedly for several times. | View more |
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