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Denmark National Court/ The Court of the Faroe Islands (Retten på Færøerne) 2019 Denmark / The Court of the Faroe Islands Religion Muslims The case concerns hate speech. The defendant was indicted for having made the following statements at a public café in the Faroe Islands: "I hate all Muslims, you are shitty people, who only want to exploit Denmark, you should all be thrown out of the country, Muslims are responsible for all crime in Denmark and Sweden", "I kill all Muslims, I beat you to death, Muslims should be exterminated", "I hate Muslims and if you say something I will smash you", "You… View more
Germany Higher Labour Court of Rhineland Palatinate (Landesarbeitsgericht Rheinland-Pfalz) 2019 Germany / Higher Labour Court of Rhineland Palatinate (Landesarbeitsgericht Rheinland-Pfalz) / 3 Sa 132/19 / ECLI:DE:LAGRLP:2019:1216.3Sa132.19.00 Religion Muslims The plaintiff claims compensation because of an rejection of an application. The defendant had advertised an apprenticeship for office management. The plaintiff sent her application with a photograph attached that showed her wearing a headscarf, whereupon the defendant replied: "I assume that your application is surely not meant seriously and you surely only drafted an alibi letter to receive welfare benefit. My advice for the future: in case you ever wanted to write a serious application… View more
Germany Higher Labour Court of Baden-Württemberg (Landesarbeitsgericht Baden-Württemberg) 2019 Germany / Higher Labour Court of Baden-Württemberg (Landesarbeitsgericht Baden-Württemberg) / 17 Sa 3/19 / ECLI:DE:LAGBW:2019:1205.17SA3.19.00 Religion Muslims The plaintiff took legal action against an extraordinary termination of his employment contract due to messages he had sent to a colleague of Turkish origin and Muslim faith. These messages included, among others, an image file shwoing a mosque under the heading "In Bavaria a mosque has been opened, and during the first prayer some Bavarians infiltrated and fired shots into the air. I am sending you this recording so you hear how the preacher has changed his prayer…", added by an… View more
Germany Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) 2019 Germany / Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) / 2 WDB 3.19 / ECLI:DE:BVerwG:2019:091019B2WDB3.19.0 Migrant status, Religion Muslims, Refugees & asylum seekers A soldier had made several racist, antisemitic and anti-Muslim statements in a WhatsApp Group and towards a lieutenant. He had shared, for example, in the WhatsApp group a picture showing a helmet of a Christian crusader with the slogan 'There doesn't need to be a Muslim ban, if there are no Muslims’ and said to the lieutenant that the refugee crisis could be solved by shooting down the refugee boats in the Mediterranean Sea. Thereupon the soldier’s commander took disciplinary action… View more
Czechia District Court Chomutov 2019 Czech Republic / Regional Court Religion Muslims The defendant was found guilty of defamation of a nation, race, ethnic or other groups of people, which she committed by publishing the following comment: 'I keep saying this, this race of animals does not belong in Europe'. View more
Czechia District Court (Jindřichův Hradec) 2019 Czech Republic / Regional Court Religion Muslims The defendant was found guilty of inciting hatred and violence against an ethnic group, which he committed with a comment calling on members of the Czech nation to awaken their Hussite blood and expel 'fucking Muslim maladapted monkeys', 'stinking pakazi', or 'slizouns' [sleazebags] from the Czech Republic, which he concluded with the words (cit. ): '"OUR COUNTRY, OUR HABITS, OUR GIRLS AND BEER!! WE WILL NOT LEAVE THEM ANY OF IT!!'. View more
Czechia Supreme Court 2019 Czech Republic / Regional Court Religion Muslims The case concerns both online and offline incitement to hatred and violence against an ethnic and religious group (Jews and Muslims). The defendant for a long period of time publicly published, spoke, and wrote speeches and comments that delibrately expressed and promoted a negative view of immigrants, predominantly those of Muslim faith, coming from areas mainly in the Middle East and North Africa, precisely because of their Muslim faith, but also because of their diversity as an ethnic group. View more
Belgium Court of First Instance (Rechtbank van eerste aanleg) 2019 Belgium / Court of First Instance Liège / Le Procureur du Roi vs. X Race/Ethnicity Muslims On the occasion of a royal visit to a Muslim family, a couple posted messages on Facebook inciting hatred, including a picture of Hitler saying “put them all in the oven!” View more
United Kingdom High Court 2019 United Kingdom / Her Majesty's Attorney General v Yaxley-Lennon [2019] EWHC 1791 (QB) Religion Muslims The case relates to actions amounting to contempt of court by the respondent. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon also known as Tommy Robinson, a prominent far-right and anti-Islam activist and co-founder of the English Defence League. On 25 May 2018, whilst on a suspended sentence for breaching reporting restrictions, the respondent recorded a Facebook live post outside Leeds Crown Court which made reference to various details of a live trial that was subject to a reporting postponement order. During the… View more
United Kingdom Court of Appeal 2019 United Kingdom / R v Bitton (David) [2019] EWCA Crim 1372 Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Migrant status Muslims, Migrants, Refugees & asylum seekers, EU citizens & nationals with migrant background, Third country nationals, Foreigners, Black people or of African origin, Other religious groups In May 2016, the month leading up to referendum on leaving the European Union, the appellant had published 86 messages on his public Twitter account that contained offensive and inappropriate terms and which expressed pro-Brexit, Islamophobic, anti-immigration, Anti-Semitic and racist sentiments. Examples of such tweets are as follows: "That's right. When we blow up 50 mosques you will soon get in your smelly houses and shut your curry breath mouth."; "Stay in the EU. Will… View more
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