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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
Slovakia Specialized Criminal Court 2020 Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court/2T/7/2020 ECLI:SK:SSPK:2020:9520100042.1 Race/Ethnicity Black people or of African origin, Muslims The case concerns online hate speech published on perpetrator´s Facebook profile. Hate speech targeted mainly Roma, but also migrants (it seems migrants of dark complexion or African origin) and Muslims. Perpetrator´s posts on Facebook also spreaded extremist materials referring to Nazi symbolics and symbolics of the Slovak state that existed during the WW II. The Prosecution did not address hate speech and incitement to violence and hatred. The perpetrator was only accussed and based on… View more
Slovakia Specialized Criminal Court 2020 Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court/3T/21/2020 ECLI:SK:SSPK:2020:9520100157.1 Race/Ethnicity, Religion Black people or of African origin, Muslims, Migrants, Refugees & asylum seekers The case concerns online hate speech published on perpetrator´s Facebook profile. Hate speech targeted mainly Roma, but also migrants (it seems migrants of dark complexion or African origin) and Muslims. Perpetrator´s posts on Facebook also posessed and disseminated extremist materials referring to Nazi symbolics (images, Nazi music recordings etc.). The prosecution however only accused him of posession and dissemination of extremist materials, not of hate speech or incitement to violence and… View more
Slovakia Sepcialized Criminal Court 2020 Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court/3T/16/2020 ECLI:SK:SSPK:2020:9520100124.2 Race/Ethnicity Muslims The perpetrator repeatedly published and shared on Facebook posts, videos and other information sympathizing with the Nazi regime and information expressing hatred against Jews, migrants (including Muslims). By this decision, the Specialized Criminal Court approved the agreement between the prosecutor and the accused on the punishment. View more
Slovakia Sepcialized Criminal Court 2020 Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court/1T/24/2020 Race/Ethnicity, Religion Muslims The perpetrator repeatedly published and shared on Facebook information against migrants, islamic religion and Muslims. The information published by the perptrator containd incitement to hatred and violence. By this decision, the Specialized Criminal Court approved the agreement between the prosecutor and the accused on the punishment. View more
Slovakia Specialized Criminal Court,office Pezinok 2019 Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court / 2T/15/2019 Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity, 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 Race/Ethnicity, 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
Slovakia Specialized Criminal Court,office Banská Bystrica 2018 Slovakia / Specialized Criminal Court / 4T/18/2018 Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity, 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
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