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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
Belgium Brussels Criminal Court (Tribunal correctionnel Bruxelles) 2021 Belgium / Tribunal correctionnel Bruxelles / Trib.corr.Bxl. , 29-06-2021 Religion Muslims The case concerns a woman who posted and shared multiple hate messages targeting the Muslim community, including calling for the eradication of Islam. View more
Belgium Kortrijk Criminal Court (Correctionele rechtbank Kortrijk) 2020 Belgium / Correctionele rechtbank Kortrijk / Trib.corr.Courtrai, 10-11-2020 Religion Muslims The case concerns physical violence against a Muslim woman. The victim was aggressed by a man who stuck with force a sticker that said "no mosque in our neighbourhood" to her back and to her cheek and allegedly pushed her to the ground. She was wearing a headscarf at the time of the incident. View more
Belgium Court of First Instance (Rechtbank van eerste aanleg) 2020 Belgium / Court of First Instance Brussels / De Procureur des Konings bij het parket Halle-Vilvoorde vs. D. J. P. R. Religion Muslims A man posted a message in a Facebook group, asking whether the local mosque might move to another location. The defendant replied the following: "If only, there are more and more of them, we have to burn them down." View more
Belgium Constitutional Court (Grondwettelijk Hof) 2020 Belgium / Constitutional Court / 81/2020 Religion Muslims A Brussels institute for higher education (college) prohibits in its internal regulations, among other things, the wearing of religious signs. Female Muslim students who wish to wear a headscarf initiate legal proceedings and the court formulates a preliminary question tot he Constitutional Court. The students claim that the ban on head scarfs is contrary to the Anti-Discrimination Decree of 12 December 2008. View more
Belgium Luxembourg Criminal Court (Tribunal correctionnel du Luxembourg) 2020 Belgium / Tribunal correctionnel du Luxembourg / Trib.corr.Lux., 22-10-2020 Race/Ethnicity Muslims The case concerns online incitement to hatred and violence. More concretely, it concerns two individuals who were responsible for a website and a Facebook group related to an identarian group from the Ardennes region. In these online platforms, multiple texts or images inciting to hatred or violence against Muslims were published. View more
Belgium Court of First Instance (Rechtbank van eerste aanleg) 2020 Belgium / Court of First Instance Kortijk / Openbaar Ministerie en Unia vs. C. J.W. L Nationality Muslims A man manages, under various pseudonyms, several platforms on social media on which discriminatory and stigmatising messages are posted against Jewish people, black people and Muslims. Fake news is also posted about a sheep allegedly tortured and killed near an asylum centre. View more
Belgium Court of First Instance (Rechtbank van eerste aanleg) 2019 Belgium / Court of First Instance Liège / Le Procureur du Roi vs. X Race/Ethnicity Muslims On the occasion of a royal visit to a Muslim family, a couple posted messages on Facebook inciting hatred, including a picture of Hitler saying “put them all in the oven!” View more
Belgium Court of first instance Antwerp,department Antwerp criminal matters (Rechtbank van eerste aanleg Antwerpen,afdeling Antwerpen strafzaken) 2019 Belgium / Court of First Instance of Antwerp / No number found Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Religion Muslims, EU citizens & nationals with migrant background Guns, illegal weapons, an alarm gun, posters about stopping Islamization and two laptops were found in the defendant’s home. Through Twitter, he proposed ethnic cleansing of people of Moroccan origin. Via Twitter, he repeatedly harrassed UNIA’s director by calling her a rat, public traitor, anti-Semite, and a “Mulsim sucking collaborating whore”, alongside her picture, because he felt that UNIA takes complaints lodged by Muslims serious and others not. The defendant also harrassed a UNIA policy… View more
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