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Austria | Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) | 2017 |
Austria / Supreme Court / 14 Os 9/17f ECLI:AT:OGH0002:2017:0140OS00009.17F.0228.000 Austria: Regional Court (Landesgericht), Ried/20 Hv 33/16k |
Nationality | Refugees & asylum seekers | The case concerns online incitement to hatred and violence. The defendant posted the following on Facebook [roughly translated:] "No sending back. You can open Mauthausen[.] having a little showering or dragging rocks at the death stairs[.] there are some fine things one can do there @ lowlives" and "Negro = target[.] we could shoot them a little with softguns © haha". | View more |
Austria | Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) | 2017 |
Austria / Supreme Court / 15Os25/17s ECLI:AT:OGH0002:2017:0150OS00025.17S.0405.000 |
Race/Ethnicity | Refugees & asylum seekers | The case concerns online incitement to hatred and violence. More concretely, the defendant (J.H.) was indicted for posting an image on Facebook showing two snipers lying in a trench with machine guns, with the caption "The fastest asylum procedure in Germany ... rejects up to 1,400 requests per minute". | View more |
Austria | Vienna Court of Appeal (Oberlandesgericht Wien) | 2018 | Austria / Higher Regional Court Vienna / 18 Bs 339/18m | Religion, Migrant status | Muslims, Refugees & asylum seekers | A women posted several statements her two Facebook profiles over a two-month period: She called refugees "human garbage" as well "deranged, criminal, escaped murderers". She called Muslims "human shit " and commented that "these children are programmed to hate from an early age on. To kill. Muslims can do nothing else. " In response to the birth of the Viennese New Year's Baby 2018 she posted: "We do not want asshole Muslim children.[...] Keep… | View more |
Austria | Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) | 2018 | Austria / Supreme Court / 15Os33/18v ECLI:AT:OGH0002:2018:RS0132087 | Religion, Migrant status | Muslims, Refugees & asylum seekers | The case concerns online incitement to hatred and violence. From March to July 2016, H. F. posted several statements against persons seeking international protection and persons who follow the Islamic faith on Facebook. These comments included prejudice, slander and verbal abuse and were visible for at least 1.094 Facebook users. The public prosecutor's office discontinued the investigation proceedings against him, because the statemetns would not amount to incitement to hatred according… | View more |
Austria | European Court of Human Rights | 2019 | Austria / European Court of Human Rights / E.S. v. Austria (Application no. 38450/12) | Religion | Muslims | E.S. held several seminars entitled “Basic Information on Islam” at the right-wing Freedom Party Education Institute. Several statements she had made during these (public) seminars had been directed against the doctrines of Islam, which essentially conveyed the message that Muhammad had had paedophilic tendencies. She was convicted of disparaging religious doctrines, pursuant to § 188 of the Criminal Code. The Austrian Courts found her guilty of publicly disparaging an object of veneration of a… | View more |
Austria | Austrian Press Council (Österreichischer Presserat) | 2019 | Austria / Austrian Press Council (Österreichischer Presserat), Medien24 GmbH. | Migrant status | Muslims | An article published in “wochenblick.at“ on 22 August 2019 reported about an increased mistreatment of hedgehogs and cruel killings of other wild animals in a Swedish town. The article reported that according to the chairwoman of the Animal Friends, this is especially the case in areas with a high density of migrants. The article is accompanied by a "symbolic picture" showing a mosque with minarets in front of a Swedish flag. In the background, a thundery sky with several flashes of… | View more |
Austria | Austrian Press Council (Österreichischer Presserat) | 2022 | Austria / Austrian Press Council (Österreichischer Presserat) / 2020/318 | Migrant status | Muslims | An article published in the daily newspaper "OE24" on 20 September 2022 reported that on Saturday evening migrants had danced to oriental music in the inner city of Vienna. According to the article, the migrants had danced to oriental music and videos had gone viral on TikTok. Police were again not present at the scene and the reason for the gathering was unclear. Attached to the post is a photo of the men dancing, and the accompanying text reads: "Pack meeting in the pedestrian… | View more |
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