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Slovakia | District Court Žilina (Okresný súd Žilina) | 2016 | Slovakia / District Court Žilina / 29T/71/2015 | Ethnic origin, Religion, Race, Nationality | Muslims, Migrants, Third country nationals, Refugees & asylum seekers | The defendant made a public advertisement in 2015 offering a job stating - "shooting of immigrants in the accommodation facility for 25 Eur/person". In addition, he published a video on his social media profile voicing hateful speech against migrants, specifically Muslims and people of migrant origin (including Syrians and Libyans). | View more |
Slovakia | Regional Court in Bratislava | 2016 |
Slovakia / Regional Court in Bratislava Šamko, P. (2016), 'Prime Minister, Freedom of Speech and a Compact Muslim Community' (Predseda vlády, sloboda prejavu a ucelená moslimská komunita), Právne listy |
Religion | Muslims | The complainant in the criminal complaint brought to the Prosecutor´s Office argued that the Slovak Prime Minister committed a crime of public defamation; incitement to hatred and intimidation. The complaint referred to public statements of the PM calling for preventing the formation of a "compact Muslim community" and stating "we do not want our women to be harassed in public space". The Regional Prosecutor refused the criminal complaint. | View more |
Slovakia | The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic (Najvyšší súd Slovenskej Republiky) | 2017 | Slovakia / Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic | Religion | Muslims | The defendant was accused of making a publicly available video where she publicly threatened a group of persons with death and grave injury or other harm based on their religion. She was also accused of incitement to hatred and public defamation against a group of persons by making extremist materials. | View more |
Slovakia | The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic (Najvyšší súd Slovenskej Republiky) | 2017 | Slovakia / Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic | Race, Ethnic origin | EU citizens & nationals with migrant background | The defendant in this case was accused of attacking a French citizen of migrant origin , constituting a criminal offence of damage on health with a specific racially-biased motive. The racial motivation of the attack was also considered by reference to additional evidence - by "liking" the Facebook page of a certain group. The Supreme Court revoked the decision of the lower court for lack of evidence. | View more |
Slovakia | The Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission (Rada pre vysielanie a retransmisiu (RVR) | 2017 | Slovakia / The Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission | Ethnic origin, Religion | Muslims, Migrants | The Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission (RVR) fined the broadcaster of Žilina-based Radio Frontinus for a talk show attended by Milan Mazurek, MP of the far-right People’s Party – Our Slovakia (ĽSNS). The talk show was broadcast on 2 October 2016. The RVR claimed it was not impartial as Mazurek was the only guest. Moreover, RVR also sanctioned the radio with a notice of law violation for Mazurek’s offensive statements against Roma and Muslim migrants. | View more |
Slovakia | Regional Court Bratislava | 2017 | Slovakia / Regional Court Bratislava/1To/68/2017 | Religion | Muslims | The case concerns a verbal attack on a Muslim woman in a public space. Perpetrator tried to pull down her hijab while shouting that "scarves do not belong in Slovakia". District Court Bratislava assessed the case as a misdemeanour rather than a criminal offense and referred the case to the District Office Bratislava (case 2T-8-2017). This resolution was appealed by the District Prosecutor´s Office arguing that the act was clearly an ethnically and racially motivated hate crime. The… | View more |
Slovakia | Specialized Criminal Court,office Banská Bystrica | 2018 | Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court / 4T/18/2018 | Race, Ethnic origin, Migrant status | Migrants, Black people or of African origin | The case concerns online incitement to violence and hate through public Facebook profile against group of persons based on their actual or presumed affiliation to race, nation, ethnic group and based on their actual or presumed origin, skin-colour, religion, public incitement to oppression of their freedoms and rights. In particular, the defendant published on his Facebook profile a picture of a soldier with a rifle from a barrel point of view with a commentary „ We are expecting them...… | View more |
Slovakia | Specialized Criminal Court,office Pezinok | 2019 | Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court / 2T/15/2019 | Race, Ethnic origin, Religion | Muslims, Black people or of African origin, Other religious groups | The case concerns multiple crimes and offences committed within years 2012-2018 mainly online through public facebook profile, involving incitement to violence and hate, threats, hate speech and defamation targeting Islamic religion and culture, Muslims, black people and people of African origin, Roma, Jews and migrants. Examples from the evidence are posted comments "to shoot migrants and gypsies as well" or posted pictures and posts that disrespect Islamic religion. The… | View more |
Slovakia | District Court Martin | 2019 | Slovakia / District Court Martin / 13T/175/2017 | Ethnic origin, Religion | Muslims | The case concerns online incitement to hatred against persons of Islamic religion. In 2016 unknown author posted a picture of a building depicting the residence of the Association of Muslims in the middle Slovakia and corresponding phone numbers with a commentary: “They have a mosque in Martin. Not with minaret, but still they have.” Defendant commented on this post: “If I find out, where they meet, I´m willing to join and f…k them out of there. What an insolence to do…We have Matica (name of… | View more |
Slovakia | The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic | 2019 | Slovakia / the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic / 4Volpp/1/2017 | Migrant status | Migrants | The case concerns the proposition to dissolve the far-right political party Ľudová strana naše Slovensko (People's Party – Our Slovakia further as “the party”). The lawsuit was filled in and sent to the court by the General Prosecutor arguing that the programme and goals of the party are in direct contradiction to the Constitution of the Slovak Republic, mainly the art. 29 para 3 of the Constitution on the protection of freedoms and rights of others. The lawsuit addresses multiple… | View more |
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