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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 |
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 |
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 |
Bulgaria | Regional Court - Stara Zagora (Районен съд - Стара Загора) | 2022 | Bulgaria / Regional Court - Stara Zagora / Decision No 216 of 6 April 2022 on civil case No 5629/2021, ECLI:BG:RC553:2022:20210105629.001 | Religion | Muslims | The case is about harassment on the grounds of religion. A Muslim man serving a prison sentence claimed compensation for damages caused by two other inmates, both Christians, who prevented him from practising his religion. The alleged offenders shouted "Allah and Mohammed are terrorists" and "Islam is a religion of terrorists" while the applicant was praying, gagged him, pulled away his prayer rug, removed the ritual prayer cap from his head, spat on his religious books and… | View more |
Belgium | Antwerp Court of Appeal (Cour d’appel d’Anvers) | 2022 | Belgium / Cour d’appel d’Anvers. / Anvers, 9-02-2022 | Religion | Muslims | The case concerns the appeal from a decision in which the primary judge found that it was discriminatory for a not-for-profit organisation providing assistance to mothers in need to ask the mothers and anyone accompanying them to remove their headscarves in the premises of the organisation. | View more |
Belgium | Ghent Court of Appeal (Hof van Beroep Gent) | 2021 | Belgium / Hof van Beroep Gent / Gand, 24-06-2021 | Religion | Muslims | The case concerns discriminatory rules applied in a municipal pool that forbid the use of swimwear that covers the entire body (burqini). It was brought by a woman who was prevented from using the pool because of her swimwear. | View more |
Croatia | Municipal Court in Pula - Pola / Općinski sud u Puli - Pola | 2021 | Croatia / Municipal Court In Pula - Pola / K-104/21 | Religion | Muslims | <p>The perpetrator was found guilty of having committed a criminal offense against personal freedom - threat. The perpetrator threatened three people of the Muslim religion. Among others, he stated that he would kill them and their family, bury them where the mosque is being built, that he would kill all their friends, that he would set fire to the mosque, while approaching the victims with a telescopic baton.</p> | View more |
Finland | District Court of Länsi-Uusimaa (Länsi-Uudenmaan käräjäoikeus / Västra Nylands tingsrätt) - National court | 2021 | Finland / District Court of Länsi-Uusimaa | Migrant status | Migrants | X had participated in an anti-migrant discussion on another person’s open and public Facebook page. In his comments X called migrants “child rapists”. He also suggested that contract killers are hired to hunt down migrants as animals and to kill a couple of migrant children as a warning. Migrants should be intimidated so that they would leave the country. X had targeted migrants in general, not any specific ethnic or religious group. | View more |
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 |
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