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Croatia County Court in Pula (Županijski sud u Puli -Pola) 2013 Croatia / County Court in Pula / Kž-263/13 Race/Ethnicity Migrants The High Court convicted a man of threatening a Serbian from an ethnic minority with violence, with the aggravating circumstance of targeting a person on the basis of ethnic origin.The offender repeatedly threatened the victim that he would kill all the Serbs and cut them in pieces and sexually assault the victim. In doing so the offender was holding a metal object and exposed his genitals, which disturbed and frightened the victim. View more
Croatia County Court in Slavonski Brod (Županijski sud u Slavonskom Brodu) 2015 Croatia / County Court in Slavonski Brod / Kž-220/14-4 Race/Ethnicity Migrants The High Court convicted two offenders of inflicting grave physical injury with the aggravated circumstance of hate crime. The offenders physically attacked the victim. The court held that the offence was motivated on the basis of race because the offenders directed “discriminatory words” towards the victim. The content of “the discriminatory words” was not disclosed in its ruling. View more
Croatia County Court in Zagreb (Županijski sud u Zagrebu) 2015 Croatia / County Court in Zagreb / Kž-573/15-3 Race/Ethnicity Migrants The High Court convicted the offender of hate crime on the basis of race. In a shop owned by the victim, the offender made offensive comments based on race, for no other reason than his intolerance for persons of another race. After that, he pulled the victim by her hair and injured her. He also smashed the glass door of the shop. View more
Croatia Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb 2018 Croatia / Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb / no. 2. Km-39/2018 Nationality, Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity Refugees & asylum seekers The case concerns the criminal offence of threat to violence based on hatred towards people of different nationality, ethnic origin or race. More concretely, the defendant (a minor) was indicted for assaulting, harassing and threatening a refugee from Iraq (also a minor), also for sending him threatening messages, that caused the refugee from Iraq strong feelings of fear and anxiety. View more
Croatia Magistrates Court in Rijeka 2018 Croatia / Magistrates Court in Rijeka / no. 36. Pp J-1959/16 Race/Ethnicity, Religion Muslims The case is about a misdemeanour offence. The defendant was indicted for harassing his neighbour and neighbour’s wife while intoxicated, yelling profanities like “f**k your Muslim mother”, among others. View more
Croatia Municipal Labour Court in Zagreb 2018 Croatia / Municipal Labour Court in Zagreb / no. 6 Pr-636/17-188 Nationality, Race/Ethnicity, Religion Muslims The case is concerning harassment and discrimination in the workplace. During 2011, at his workplace, the victim was received threatening messages such as “Stinking Arab, you are taking away food meant for our children, we will exterminate you all”, messages with a drawn knife and noose with the message under writing “choose” and other disturbing content. The case revolved around whether the employer had ensured sufficient measures of protecting and preventing harassment of their workers. View more
Croatia Misdemeanor Court of Zagreb (Prekršajni sud u Zagrebu) 2019 Croatia / Misdemeanor Court in Zagreb / 89. Pp J-3155/2019 Race/Ethnicity Muslims Three defendants were charged that on 28 Sept 2019 in a bar in Zagreb they disturbed public order by pushing each other and verbally clashing, thus committing a violation of Art. 13 and 17 of the Act on Misdemeanors against Public Order and Peace. The first defendant is acquitted of the accusation that during the same incident he insulted the third defendant with the words: "Fuck your Muslim mother, balije" which is a violation of Art. 25 par. 1 of the Anti-Discrimination Act. View more
Croatia Misdemeanor Court in Zagreb (Prekršajni sud u Zagrebu) 2019 Croatia / Misdemeanor Court in Zagreb / Pp J-3220/2019-10 Race/Ethnicity Muslims The defendant was sentenced to a fine for HRK 1,000.00 for a violation of Art. 25 par. 1 of the Anti-Discrimination Act. The defendant insulted his daughter's ex- extramarital husband on the religious grounds with the words "Why are you looking at me like that, motherfucker, you Muslim shit" which caused him a sense of anxiety and disgust. View more
Croatia Municipal Court in Osijek, Misdemeanor section (Općinski sud u Osijeku, Prekršajni odjel) 2019 Croatia / Municipal Court in Osijek, Misdemeanor section / 89. Pp J-1066/2019-10 Nationality Muslims The defendant, while intoxicated, shouted and verbally abused the victim by insulting her national/ethnic backround with the words: ""Get fucked by your father you Muslim, fuck your mother, go live in Bosnia", which is a violation of Art. 25 par. 1 of the Anti-Discrimination Act. View more
Croatia Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia (Ustavni sud Republike Hrvatske) 2019 Croatia / Constitutional Court / U-III-424/2019 U-III-1411/2019 Migrant status Refugees & asylum seekers The Constitutional Court dismissed the complaint of the applicant from Iraq filed on the judgment of the High Administrative Court therefor confirming its judgment and rejecting the applicant request for annulment of the decision rejecting the subsequent request for international or subsidiary protection. The applicant has not proved that he would be a victim of persecution within the meaning of Articles 20 and 21 of the International and Temporary Protection Act. Although the applicant… View more
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