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Albania Albanian Audiovisual Authority 2021 Albania/Audiovisual Media Authority/ Religion Muslims The Albanian Audiovisual Authority, responsible for overseeing audiovisual broadcasts, received a discrimination complaint regarding the program "Expuls" on "Ora News" TV, which was aired on October 17, 2021. The complaint alleged religious discrimination against Muslims. After analyzing the video material, violations of the "On Audiovisual Media" law and the Broadcasting Code were found. The broadcast, which discussed plastic surgery, featured remarks from the… View more
Austria Austrian Press Council (Österreichischer Presserat) 2022 Austria / Austrian Press Council (Österreichischer Presserat) / 2020/318 Migrant status Muslims An article published in the daily newspaper "OE24" on 20 September 2022 reported that on Saturday evening migrants had danced to oriental music in the inner city of Vienna. According to the article, the migrants had danced to oriental music and videos had gone viral on TikTok. Police were again not present at the scene and the reason for the gathering was unclear. Attached to the post is a photo of the men dancing, and the accompanying text reads: "Pack meeting in the pedestrian… View more
Romania The National Council for Combating Discrimination (Consiliul Naţional pentru Combaterea Discriminării) 2022 The National Council for Combating Discrimination (Consiliul Naţional pentru Combaterea Discriminării) decision no. 388 from 6 July 2022 Race/Ethnicity, Religion Muslims The case concerns a news article that covers different positions from within the Muslim community from Constanta in regard to a statute of a Kazakh composer that was placed there. The petitioner claims that the way a news article portrays the different opinions from the Muslim community and that fact that it claims the community is worried about this statute is discriminatory and it sows discontent within the local Muslim community. View more
Greece Greek Ombudsman - Ombudsperson 2022 Greek Ombudsman, Summary of Intervention, The ban on the use of headscarves during nursing internships in clinics of public hospitals does not constitute discrimination based on religious beliefs, July 2022. Religion Muslims The case concerned the complaint of a trainee Muslim trainee nurse, who was banned from wearing a headscarf during her traineeship at a pubic hospital. The Ombudsman examined whether a head-scarf ban during nursing internships at public hospital clinics constituted discrimination based on religion and religious beliefs. After communicating with the Hospital authority and the competent department of the Ministry of Health, the Ombudsman found that there was no discrimination and that the ban was… View more
Ireland High Court 2022 [2022] IEHC 553 - E.S AND INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION APPEALS TRIBUNAL AND THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE Religion refugees & asylum seekers The applicant applied for international protection. The applicant was Muslim and claimed that he risked persecution in India due to his religious belief and was at a risk of serious harm. The applicant was involved in the beef industry and claimed to have suffered religious persecution by Hindu nationalists as a result. However, the IPO recommended that the applicant should not be given refugee or subsidiary protection. It was reasoned that he had investment property worth €4 million which he… View more
Ireland Work Place Relations Commission (WRC) 2022 ADJ-00032864 Narimene Saad vs Deeward Ltd Religion persons of african origin Narimene Saad had complained under the Employment Equality Act against Deeward Ltd, claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of both her race and religion when she interviewed for a position with the firm. The company had denied discriminating against her at all. She told a hearing that she was invited to an interview for a part-time weekend job and met the company’s operations manager. The interviewer questioned her about her nationality when she wore a headscarf to a job interview. View more
Luxembourg First Instance Court of Luxembourg City (nineteenth chamber) [Tribunal d’arrondissement de Luxembourg (dix-neuvième chambre)] 2022 Luxembourg/First Instance Court of Luxembourg City/no. 1551/2022 Religion Third country nationals On the 7th of February 2020, the Anti-Terrorist Section of the Judicial Police Service was informed of the existence of several comments on Facebook which contained xenophobic remarks. The comments were related to an article from «LEQUOTIDIEN.LU» shared by a user on his Facebook page. The investigation later revealed that the Facebook profile associated with the comments belonged to the defendant. In his comments, the defendant declared that Muslims were scum, adding emoticons such as "… View more
Netherlands Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) 2022 The Netherlands, Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) (2022), Opinion number 2022-13, 29 August 2022. Religion Muslims A Muslim woman wearing a headscarf visits a fitness centre for a trial lesson. She wears a headscarf because of her Islamic religious beliefs. The fitness centre employee indicates that it is not allowed to exercise with headscarves, after which the woman leaves the fitness centre. The woman felt discriminated against because of her religious beliefs. She submitted her case to the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights. The fitness centre disputes that the woman was discriminated against and… View more
Luxembourg Administrative Tribunal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (fourth chamber)[Tribunal administratif du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (4e chambre)] 2022 Luxembourg/Administrative Tribunal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg /N° 44025 Religion Muslims On the 5th of November 2019, the Director-General of the public company POST Luxembourg applied a disciplinary sanction of revocation to a worker who was considered guilty, among others, of harassing, discriminating and disrespecting and external employee of the company. The worker lodged an appeal on the 15th of January 2020 seeking the alteration or, in the alternative, the annulment of the decision from the Director-General. Following an assessment of the credibility of the facts, the… View more
Poland Appeal Court of Warsaw (Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie) 2022 Poland / Court of Appeal of Warsaw / Judgement of 12 January 2022, case no. II AKa 33/21 Nationality Third country nationals The defendant used violence and unlawful threats against a citizen of an Arabic country on the grounds of his national, racial and ethnic origin, by punching him in the face with his fist and threatening him with death while displaying a tattoo containing, inter alia, the image of a swastika, acting in public. The first instance court acquitted the defendant of this charge. The judgement was appealed against by the public prosecutor and the victim's attorney. View more
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