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Netherlands | Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) | 2022 | The Netherlands, Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) (2022), Case no.21/01879, 18 October 2022, ECLI:NL:HR:2022:1468. | Religion | Muslims | Ruling of the Supreme Court upholding a judgment of the Court of Appeal in which the defendant was acquitted of group insults against Muslims because of or statements she made during a public demonstration. On 11 October 2015 during a Pegida demonstration a woman said during her speech: "Another reason to despise and hate Muslims is their insane ideology. Because it's never the religion of peace." Pegida is pan-European anti-Islam organisation. She placed her speech in written… | View more |
Czechia | Constitutional Court (Ústavní soud) | 2022 | Czech Republic / Constitutional Court / ECLI:CZ:US:2022:2.US.2120.21.1 | Religion | Refugees & asylum seekers | <p>The case concerns a theatre play depicting the rape of a Muslim woman by Jesus Christ and the performance of oral sex on a statue of Pope John Paul II. The complainants, previously plaintiffs before a civil court, sought protection of their rights by asking for an apology from the authors of the play as they felt negatively affected by the artistic expression.</p> | View more |
Netherlands | Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) | 2022 | The Netherlands, Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) (2022), Opinion number 2022-13, 29 August 2022. | Religion | Muslims | A Muslim woman wearing a headscarf visits a fitness centre for a trial lesson. She wears a headscarf because of her Islamic religious beliefs. The fitness centre employee indicates that it is not allowed to exercise with headscarves, after which the woman leaves the fitness centre. The woman felt discriminated against because of her religious beliefs. She submitted her case to the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights. The fitness centre disputes that the woman was discriminated against and… | View more |
Spain | Provincial Court of Barcelona, Sixth Section (Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona, Sección Sexta) | 2022 | Spain, Provincial Court of Barcelona, Sixth Section (Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona, Sección Sexta) Judgment No. 674/2022, Nº of Appeal: 54/2022 (Sentencia núm. 674/2022, Nº Recurso: 54/2022), 8 November 2022. | Migrant status, Race/Ethnicity | Muslims | <p>It is a conviction against a civil guard for publishing on Twitter on July 1, 2019, the following message: "Here you have the video of the Moroccan unaccompanied minor of Canet de Mar, to these that we are going to give the small pay until 23 years old, the children of “Pedrito Piscinas.” By the way, then, to make matters worse, he rapes her. These hooligans and these herds of Moroccans will not appear in the media.” Accompanying the text, the tweeter added a 45-second video of… | View more |
Cyprus | Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights | 2022 | Cyprus, Commissioner for administration and human rights/Self-initiated position of the Commissioner for Administration and Human Rughts regarding the attacks against foreign delivers of cooked food, Ref. AYT.1/2022 | Race/Ethnicity | Third country nationals | In February 2022 a video was circulated on social media showing a group of teenagers attacking migrant delivery workers in the centre of Nicosia. The Ombudsperson issued a statement in relation to this attack, calling on the Ministry of Education to intensify its efforts in offering seminars and trainings to children in primary education so that when they grow up they will not harbour sentiments of hate; and on the police to intensify its efforts to investigate the incident, encouraging people… | View more |
Slovakia | Specialized Criminal Court (Špecializovaný trestný súd) | 2022 | Slovakia/Specialized Criminal Court/ 11T/6/2022 ECLI: ECLI:SK:SSPK:2022:9522100174.1 | Religion | Muslims | A case where the accused verbally assaulted the victim because he thought he looked like a Muslim. The accused threatened the victim with violence and also threatened to kill all Muslims. The accused also subsequently punched the victim. According to the Court, the accused committed the offence of making dangerous threats under section 360 (d) of the Criminal Code, with reference to section 140(e) of the Criminal Code (the crime was committed with a specific motive which was the hatred against… | View more |
Slovakia | Specialized Criminal Court (Špecializovaný trestný súd) | 2022 | Slovakia/Specialized Criminal Court/ 6T/6/2022 ECLI:SK:SSPK:2022:9522100142.1 | Religion | Muslims | The case concerns a man who shared and published on Facebook information against Muslims, persons of African origin and migrants to Europe. He threatened with violence to them and expressed incitement to hatred. He did it repeatedly for several times. | View more |
Bulgaria | Regional Court - Stara Zagora (Районен съд - Стара Загора) | 2022 | Bulgaria / Regional Court - Stara Zagora / Decision No 216 of 6 April 2022 on civil case No 5629/2021, ECLI:BG:RC553:2022:20210105629.001 | Religion | Muslims | The case is about harassment on the grounds of religion. A Muslim man serving a prison sentence claimed compensation for damages caused by two other inmates, both Christians, who prevented him from practising his religion. The alleged offenders shouted "Allah and Mohammed are terrorists" and "Islam is a religion of terrorists" while the applicant was praying, gagged him, pulled away his prayer rug, removed the ritual prayer cap from his head, spat on his religious books and… | 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 |
Sweden | Supreme Administrative Court (Högsta förvaltningsrätten) | 2022 | Sweden / Supreme Administrative Court / Målnummer 4266-21, 4120-21 | Religion | Muslims | In two cases, the Supreme Administrative Court examined whether municipal decisions not to accept headscarves and similar clothing items that have the purpose of concealing students and staff in municipal preschools and primary schools were contrary to legislation or other regulations. A number of municipal inhabitants in each municipality claimed, among other things, that the municipal decisions interfered with the freedom of religion. | View more |
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