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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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