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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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