Bias Motive |
Groups |
Key facts | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Czechia | Constitutional Court (Ústavní soud) | 2022 | Czech Republic / Constitutional Court / ECLI:CZ:US:2022:1.US.836.22.1 | Religion | Refugees & asylum seekers | <p>The complainant wrote an article published online titled 'Is the future of Europe Muslim?', in which he sought to incite hatred against all persons professing Islam and against all immigrants. Throughout the text the complainant purposely presents readers with a catastrophic vision of the future that he believes will occur if forceful means are not used against all immigrants. The complainant was fined by the criminal court for inciting hatred against a group of people.</p… | View more |
| Czechia | Supreme Court (Nejvyšší soud) | 2021 | Czech Republic / Supreme Court / ECLI:CZ:NS:2021:8.TDO.1246.2020.1 | Religion | Refugees & asylum seekers | <p>The defendant, a member of the Czech Police, was publicly defaming Muslims and publicly inciting hatred towards Islam by publishing defamatory and hateful posts on his personal profile on Facebook and was charged with the offence of defamation of a nation, race, or ethnic or other group of persons and the offence of incitement to hatred against a group of persons or to the restriction of their rights and freedoms.</p> | View more |
| Czechia | Supreme Court | 2019 | Czech Republic / Regional Court | Religion | Muslims | The case concerns both online and offline incitement to hatred and violence against an ethnic and religious group (Jews and Muslims). The defendant for a long period of time publicly published, spoke, and wrote speeches and comments that delibrately expressed and promoted a negative view of immigrants, predominantly those of Muslim faith, coming from areas mainly in the Middle East and North Africa, precisely because of their Muslim faith, but also because of their diversity as an ethnic group. | View more |
| Czechia | District Court (Jindřichův Hradec) | 2019 | Czech Republic / Regional Court | Religion | Muslims | The defendant was found guilty of inciting hatred and violence against an ethnic group, which he committed with a comment calling on members of the Czech nation to awaken their Hussite blood and expel 'fucking Muslim maladapted monkeys', 'stinking pakazi', or 'slizouns' [sleazebags] from the Czech Republic, which he concluded with the words (cit. ): '"OUR COUNTRY, OUR HABITS, OUR GIRLS AND BEER!! WE WILL NOT LEAVE THEM ANY OF IT!!'. | View more |
| Czechia | District Court Chomutov | 2019 | Czech Republic / Regional Court | Religion | Muslims | The defendant was found guilty of defamation of a nation, race, ethnic or other groups of people, which she committed by publishing the following comment: 'I keep saying this, this race of animals does not belong in Europe'. | View more |
| Czechia | Supreme Administrative Court | 2016 | Czech Republic / Supreme Administrative Court / 11 Kss 6/2015 - 53 / Decision of the Disciplinary Chamber | Religion | Migrants, Muslims | A judge was officially reprimanded by the Disciplinary Chamber for publishing several sarcastic and offensive articles on the migration crisis and about migrants, Muslims and humanitarian workers. | View more |
| Czechia | National Ombudsman | 2014 | Czech Republic / National Ombudsman / Report from investigation of the National Ombudsman office / 173/2013/DIS/EN | Religion | Muslims | The Ombudsman declared that rules prohibiting the wearing of any type of headwear at a medical nursing school constitutes indirect discrimination based on religion, since wearing a headscarf is an expression of the Islamic religion. Two asylum seekers studying there decided to leave the school after the director - who originally agreed on a compromise - asked them to take off their headscarves. | View more |
DISCLAIMERThe information presented here is collected under contract by the FRA's research network FRANET. The information and views contained do not necessarily reflect the views or the official position of the FRA.