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United Kingdom | United Kingdom Supreme Court | 2016 | United Kingdom / Joint appeals of Taiwo (Appellant) v. Olaigbe and another (Respondents) and Onu (Appellant) v. Akwiwu and another (Respondents) [2016] UKSC 31 | Nationality, Race/Ethnicity | Migrants | The two appellants, Ms Taiwo and Ms Omu, are both Nigerian nationals who came to work in the UK on domestic work visas. They were both forced to work excessive hours and severely mistreated by their employers, including being starved and physically and mentally abused. Both appellants claimed to have been discriminated against owing to their immigration status. | View more |
Denmark | UN CERD Committee | 2022 | Denmark / CERD / CERD/C/DNK/CO/22-24 | Race/Ethnicity | eu citizens & nationals with migrant background | CERD submitted its concluding observations on the combined twenty-second to the twenty-fourth periodic review of Denmark on 01 February 2022. The observations concludes on Denmark's latest effort on combatting racial discrimination in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its States parties | View more |
Italy | Tuscany Regional Administrative Court (Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Toscana) | 2020 | Italy/Tuscany Regional Administrative Court (TAR Toscana), N. 00663/2020 | Religion | Muslims | The Islamic Cultural Association of Pisa filed a complaint before the Tuscany Regional Administrative Court asking to annul the Pisa City Council's resolution No. 38 of 10 September 2019, which denied permission to build in the concerned area - where currently a car parks is located - a mosque and the cultural centre of the Islamic community, which had long since purchased the land. The municipal administration - led by the right-wing political party "League" - had decided to use… | View more |
Finland | Turku Administrative Court (Turun hallinto-oikeus / Åbo förvaltningsdomstol) | 2022 | Finland / Turku Administrative Court / H95/2022, 20590/03.04.04.04.03/2020 | Religion | Muslims | The complainant X had worked as a guard in a police prison. In his free time, X had posted on his Facebook site several comments relating, e.g., to sexual offences in which many of the suspected perpetrators were Muslim asylum seekers or refugees. In that context, he had referred to Muslim asylum seekers as parasites, rapists and pedophiles. The posts had been published during a period of close to 18 months. X had also indicated in the posts that he is police personnel. In October 2020, the… | View more |
Latvia | Tukums District Court (Tukuma rajona tiesa) | 2017 | Latvia / Tukums District Court / Case No. 11390001416 | Nationality | Migrants | The defendant posted public calls to violence and threats towards migrants on his Facebook profile. Initially, the defendant called to violence against migrants at a specific address in town. Later he engaged in discussions with other social network users by posting two more comments containing threats and an indication of being prepared to use violence against migrants. The defendant was accused of incitement to hatred against a specific social group - migrants under Article 150 (3) of the… | View more |
Belgium | Tribunal of First Instance of Gent(Rechtbank van Eerste Aanleg te Gent), | 2016 | Belgium / Tribunal of First Instance of Gent | Race/Ethnicity | Third country nationals | In 2016, the Tribunal of Gent convicted a person for incitement to hatred. After fighting with a Somalian man, the accused shouted various racist insults such as "dirty black" and "go back to your country" while the Somalian man was describing his account of the event to a policeman. The tribunal considered that the accused clearly had the intent to incite bystanders to violence and hatred towards the victim. | View more |
Belgium | Tribunal of First Instance of East-Flanders section Gent (Rechtbank van eerste aanleg Oost-Vlanderen afdeling Gent) | 2015 | Belgium / Tribunal of First Instance of East-Flanders section Gent/ GE56.L2.3657/14/sw3 | Religion | Muslims | In 2015, the Tribunal of Gent convicted a man for harassment and discrimination because he ordered and distributed flyers, the painting of slogans on the road, and the hanging up of posters with discriminatory messages such as "STOP ISLAM", "NO JIHAD IN OUR STREET" and "STOP THE RITUAL HALAL SLAUGHTER = 100% BARBARIC". The defendant invoked his freedom of expression, but the Tribunal argued that such freedom is limited by the respect of the constitutional freedoms… | View more |
Belgium | Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels (Tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles) | 2016 | Belgium / Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels | Nationality | Third country nationals | In 2016, the Tribunal of Brussels convicted a person for incitement to hatred and violence based on the victim's nationality. The accused had posted public messages on Facebook containing racist insults towards the Turkish victim and her son and calling for her murder. The Tribunal considered that mere insults do not constitute incitement to hatred; however, in this case, the call for murder demonstrated there was an intent to incite violence. | View more |
Belgium | Tribunal of First Instance of Brugge (Rechtbank van Eerste Aanleg te Brugge) | 2015 | Belgium / Tribunal of First Instance of Brugge / BG43.L5.5987-12 -DJ | Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity | Migrants | In 2015, the Tribunal of Bruges convicted a person for incitement to hatred based on the victim's ethnic origin. The victim, a migrant, was assaulted by two men and racially insulted by a third person. On the basis of the police report of the incident, the Tribunal considered that the accused intended to incite hatred. | View more |
Greece | Third Single-Member Felony Appeals Court of Athens | 2015 | Greece / Third Single-Member Felony Appeals Court of Athens / Third Single-Member Felony Appeals Court of Athens / Bademi and others case | Race/Ethnicity | Foreigners | The Felony Appeals Court of Athens in May 2015 found three men guilty of attacking two women during a national parade on October 28, 2011 because they were considered “foreigners”. Throughout the trial their links to the Golden Dawn party were considered a determining factor for establishing a racist motive behind the offences. This was the second time a Greek Court condemned perpetrators for carrying out a crime with a bias motive (the first was the Luqman Decision above). They were convicted… | View more |
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