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Austria | Regional Court (Landesgericht) | 2017 | Austria / Regional Court Korneuburg / 505 Hv 109/16y | Nationality | Refugees & asylum seekers | The defendant posted on several facebook pages the following: "Adolf Hitler needed to be alive and instead of killing innocent Jews, he should put all asylum seekers into a large hall and burn them alive." In addition, in response to an online newspaper article referring to 45 refugees being abandoned on the motorway, he posted a comment stating: "Away with the muck!!!!!". | View more |
Austria | Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) | 2017 | Austria / Supreme Court / 15Os25/17s ECLI:AT:OGH0002:2017:0150OS00025.17S.0405.000 | Migrant status | Refugees & asylum seekers | The case concerns online incitement to hatred and violence. More concretely, the defendant (J.H.) was indicted for posting an image on Facebook showing two snipers lying in a trench with machine guns, with the caption "The fastest asylum procedure in Germany ... rejects up to 1,400 requests per minute". | View more |
Austria | Regional Court (Landesgericht) | 2016 | Austria / Regional Court Vienna / 112 Hv 66/16w | Nationality | Refugees & asylum seekers | The defendant was found guilty for posting a comment on Facebook (referring to sexual assaults committed by asylum seekers against women and girls) [roughly translated]: "We need a little Breivick who snipes away such bastards[.] they come out of prison after 8-9 months and take the next girl or boy[.] this must not be supported with food or a warm room by tax money].] and deporting and then he comes back" | View more |
Austria | Regional Court (Landesgericht) | 2016 | Austria / Regional Court Salzburg / 47 Hv 73/16k | Nationality | Refugees & asylum seekers | The case concerns online incitement to hatred and violence. The defendant commented on a video on Facebook by stating [roughly translated:] "A storm gun and some magazines solve these problems in seconds. I do not understand why the genetic special waste is not being fired at immediately". | View more |
Austria | Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, OGH) | 2015 |
Austria / Supreme Court / 15Os75/15s ECLI:AT:OGH0002:2015:RS0130193 |
Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Nationality, Gender, Migrant status | Muslims, Migrants, Refugees & asylum seekers, EU citizens & nationals with migrant background, Third country nationals, Foreigners, Black people or of African origin, Other religious groups | The Supreme Court has ruled on a case confirming the lower court sentence of 30 year old Turkish barber who had been sentenced to two years on probation for publishing antisemitic postings on Facebook. He had dignified the Holocaust and in the context of last years Gaza war he wrote "I could kill all Jews. But I 'd leave some alive to show you why I killed them" and said that Hitler "was the king of all real men and nobody achknowdlegded him". Taking into… | View more |
Austria | Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) | 2015 |
Austria / Supreme Court / 15Os40/15v ECLI:AT:OGH0002:2015:0150OS00040.15V.0610.000 |
Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity, Religion | Muslims, Foreigners, Migrants | The case concerns online incitement to violence or hatred. The defendant alleged that every Muslim is a possible terrorist. He also stated "Let us finally wake up and remove this cancer from our people's body!". He also posted a comment on facebook stating that one has "to prevent the infiltration of primitive races, such as the Negro race and the Turks and Muslims. Moreover, he posted a world map indicating the average IQ - indicating 'mental retardation' of the… | View more |
Austria | Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) | 2013 |
Austria / Higher Regional Court Innsbruck/ 11Bs110/13h ECLI:AT:OLG0819:2013:0110BS00110.13H.0430.000 |
Race/Ethnicity | Foreigners, Muslims, Migrants | The case concerns online incitement to violence or hatred. More concretely, on 25 April 2012 the defendant made comments on facebook and other social media networks as follows [roughly translated:] "Why are there no sperm donors in Turkey? Because all the jerks are here with us." | 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 |
Czechia | Constitutional Court (Ústavní soud) | 2022 | Czech Republic / Constitutional Court / ECLI:CZ:US:2022:2.US.2120.21.1 | Religion | Refugees & asylum seekers | <p>The case concerns a theatre play depicting the rape of a Muslim woman by Jesus Christ and the performance of oral sex on a statue of Pope John Paul II. The complainants, previously plaintiffs before a civil court, sought protection of their rights by asking for an apology from the authors of the play as they felt negatively affected by the artistic expression.</p> | 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 |
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