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Denmark | Board of Equal Treatment | 2015 | Denmark / Board of Equal Treatment / KEN no. 10425 | Religion | Muslims | The Board of Equal treatment found that the defendant had harassed the claimant on the ground of race/ethnic origin. The claimant had responded to a sales advert for a car, to which the defendant replied "Fuck you Muslim". | View more |
Denmark | Eastern High Court of Denmark | 2014 | Denmark / Eastern High Court / U.2014.2648Ø | Religion | Muslims | A Danish politician and former MP, T. was found not guilty of racism. She had posted a picture on her Facebook profile of two women wearing Burqas standing next to two black garbage bags, alongside the text “hehe, remember trash day tomorrow ;))) . . .” | View more |
Denmark | Western High Court | 2013 | Denmark / Western High Court / Decision no. U.2014.73V | Religion | Muslims | The Higher Court convicted a woman of incitement to hatred (hate speech) for a statement on the website 180grader.dk. In her statement, she wrote that Muslim men rape and kill their daughters based on a defect culture and religion. The lower court had previously acquitted the woman, finding the statements were not her own and that she had merely restated a previous statement by another critic of Islam. The Higher Court however found that she was guilty. | View more |
Denmark | Danish Supreme Court (Højesteret) | 2012 | Denmark / Supreme Court / U.2012.2361H | Religion | Muslims | The defendant is a journalist and was the chair of the Freedom of Press Association. He was interviewed in 2009 by an online magazine. During this interview, he made several degrading remarks about Islam and Muslims, including: “When a Muslim man rapes a woman, it is his right to do so. When Swedish girls are raped, gang-raped, etc., etc., there is nothing wrong with that, from a Muslim perspective – that’s your right.” “They rape their own children. You hear that all the time. Girls in Muslim… | View more |
Denmark | International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination | 2012 | UN, International Convention onthe Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination / Communication No. 46/2009 / Mahali Dawas and Yousef Shava | Race/Ethnicity | Refugees & asylum seekers | This case relates to discrimination, physical violence and vandalism. In 2004 a group of 15-20 youths attacked the petitioners’ house. One managed to break into the house, and both petitioners were subjected to violence, including beatings. Other attackers outside the house shouted “go home!”, as well as other slogans of an offensive nature. After this attack, the family, including all eight children, had to flee the house. The Court convicted four perpetrators. However, the Court merely… | View more |
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