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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 |
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 |
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. 1005/2022 | Race/Ethnicity | refugees & asylum seekers | On the 6th of July 2019, the Anti-Terrorist Section of the Judicial Police Service was informed of the existence of a comment on Facebook which contained xenophobic remarks. The comment related to an article published on the Facebook page of «RTL Lëtzebuerg». The investigation later revealed that the Facebook profile associated with the comment belonged to the defendant. The comment read “In my younger years I was stationed in Saudi Arabi, in Libya and in Bahrein. These people are not like us,… | View more |
Spain | Provincial Court of Madrid, Fifth Section (Audiencia Provincial de Madrid, Sección Quinta) | 2022 | Spain, Provincial Court of Madrid, Fifth Section (Audiencia Provincial de Madrid, Sección Quinta) Judgment No. 98/2022, Nº of Appeal: 1357/2020 (Sentencia núm. 98/2022, Nº Recurso: 1357/2020), 12 December 2022 (SAP M 18461/2022 - ECLI:ES:APM:2022:18461) | Race/Ethnicity, migrant status, religion | Muslims | The Court has acquitted the leader of Hogar Social Madrid and other members of this far-right collective accused of a crime of incitement to hatred and public disorder for the organization and participation in a protest against radical Islamism in front of the Mosque of the M-30 in Madrid on March 22, 2016, the date on which the terrorist attacks took place at Brussels. In addition to appearing in front of the Mosque, the organization’s members placed a banner with the association’s emblem.… | View more |
Spain | Provincial Court of Barcelona, Sixth Section (Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona, Sección Sexta) | 2022 | Spain, Provincial Court of Barcelona, Sixth Section (Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona, Sección Sexta) Judgment No. 674/2022, Nº of Appeal: 54/2022 (Sentencia núm. 674/2022, Nº Recurso: 54/2022), 8 November 2022. | Migrant status, Race/Ethnicity | Muslims | <p>It is a conviction against a civil guard for publishing on Twitter on July 1, 2019, the following message: "Here you have the video of the Moroccan unaccompanied minor of Canet de Mar, to these that we are going to give the small pay until 23 years old, the children of “Pedrito Piscinas.” By the way, then, to make matters worse, he rapes her. These hooligans and these herds of Moroccans will not appear in the media.” Accompanying the text, the tweeter added a 45-second video of… | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Denmark | Ligebehandlingsnævnet (The Board of Equal Treatment) | 2022 | Denmark / The Board of Equal Treatment / Jr. nr. 21-30929 | Race/Ethnicity | eu citizens & nationals with migrant background | The case concerned whether af woman was discriminated against based on her ethnicity by the municipal administration in relation to their ruling on sickness benefits. The administration had asked questions regarding the women's Turkish origin which was considered as discrimination by the Board. | View more |
France | European Court of Human Rights, Fifth section | 2022 | France / ECtHR / Application no. 63539/19 / Zemmour v. France | Religion | Muslims | The case dealt with the incitement to discrimination and religious hatred against a group of people because of their belonging to the Muslim religion. In a television programme, the plaintiff, a far-right polemicist journalist, presented Muslims living in France as "colonizers" and "invaders" in a combat to "Islamize" France, and claimed that this situation implied that they had to make "a choice between Islam and France". He was convicted by the French… | View more |
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