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Austria Austria, Federal Ministry for the Interior (Bundesministerium für Inneres) 2021 Austria, Federal Ministry for the Interior (2022), Hate crime in Austria: Annual Report 2021. Hate crime General population More than one third of antisemitically motivated hate crimes were committed online, especially incitement. In contrast, more than half of all antimuslim prejudice motives were registered in (semi-)public and private spaces. The bias motive "Muslim" has been flagged by the police 283 times in 2021. In these cases, there have been 241 suspects and 158 violent offences with a total of 190 victims of violent offences. The clearance rate in these cases was 77%. View more
Austria Austria, Federal Ministry for the Interior (Bundesministerium für Inneres) 2021 Austria, Federal Ministry for the Interior (2021), Pilot Report - Hate crime in Austria. Hate crime General population

The identification and recognition of bias motives has become an integral part of the work routine of the Austrian police since November 2020. The first half year of police recognition (November 2020 to April 2021) was statistically evaluated. The key results are: In 1,936 bias-motivated crimes, 2,401 bias motives were registered. The categories “national/ethnic origin”, “ideology/ political views” and “religion” were the ones most frequently assigned to the offences. In terms of bias motivations, “gender”, “sexual orientation”, Muslim faith and “disability” dominated in offences against life and limb, freedom, honour or sexual integrity and self-determination.

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Austria Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung) 2021 Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung) (2020), Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutzbericht 2020).
Hate crime Right-wing extremists

In 2020, the security authorities in Austria were informed of a total of 895 right-wing extremist, xenophobic/racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and unspecific or other offences in which relevant offences were reported. An offence can include several offences with separate reports. Compared to 2019 (954 offences), this means a numerical decrease of 6.2 per cent. In 2020, 1,364 offences were reported nationwide in connection with the offences listed, which is 18.7 per cent less than in 2019 (1,678 offences).

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Austria Austria, Association ZARA – Civil Courage & Anti-Racism Work(Verein ZARA – Zivilcourage & Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit) 2021 Austria, Association ZARA – Civil Courage & Anti-Racism Work (Verein ZARA – Zivilcourage & Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit) (2021), Racism Report 2020: Institutional and Structural Racism, Analysis of racist attacks and structures in Austria. Racism & xenophobia General population

In 2020, 3,039 people experienced, perceived, and reported racist incidents to ZARA. That are 1,089 more reports than in the previous year. The terrorist attack in Vienna on 2 November has also contributed to fuelling prejudice against Muslims, anti-Muslim racism, and Islamophobia.

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Austria Austria, Association ZARA – Civil Courage & Anti-Racism Work(Verein ZARA – Zivilcourage & Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit) 2022 Austria, Association ZARA – Civil Courage & Anti-Racism Work (Verein ZARA – Zivilcourage & Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit) (2022), Racism Report 2021: Institutional and Structural Racism, Analysis of racist attacks and structures in Austria. Racism & xenophobia General population

In 2021, ZARA documented and handled 1,977 reports of racism. Day-to-day counselling operations have shown that racist and anti-Muslim attacks in public affect women in particular. Here, both racism and sexism play a role.

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Austria Austria, Documentation and Counselling Centre Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism (Dokumentations- und Beratungsstelle Islamfeindlichkeit & antimuslimischer Rassismus ) 2021 Documentation and Counselling Centre Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism (Dokumentations- und Beratungsstelle Islamfeindlichkeit & antimuslimischer Rassismus ) (2022), Antimuslim Racism Report 2021 (Antimuslimischer Rassismus Report 2021). Hate speech Muslims

In 2021, 1,061 cases of Anti-Muslim racism were reported. The three main offences reported concern spreading of hate (68.3%), incitement (10.2%), and racist insults (9.1%).

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Austria Austria, Documentation and Counselling Centre Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism (Dokumentations- und Beratungsstelle Islamfeindlichkeit & antimuslimischer Rassismus ) 2021 Documentation and Counselling Centre Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism (Dokumentations- und Beratungsstelle Islamfeindlichkeit & antimuslimischer Rassismus ) (2021), Antimuslim Racism Report 2020 (Antimuslimischer Rassismus Report 2020).
Hate speech Muslims

In 2020, 1,402 cases of Anti-Muslim racism were reported. The three main offences reported concern spreading of hate/incitement (80.4%), racist insults (10.3%) and property damage (3.9%).

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Austria ECRI | European Commission against Racism and Intolerance | Council of Europe 2020 ECRI (2020), ECRI Bericht über Österreich (sechste Prüfungsrunde), verabschiedet am 7. April 2020, veröffentlicht am 2. Juni 2020. ECRI (2020), ECRI Report on Austria (sixth monitoring cycle), Adopted on 7 April 2020. Racism & xenophobia, Discrimination Ethnic minorities

An amendment to the School Education Act in 2019 prohibits Muslim girls to wear headscarves. It raises concerns regarding the principles of lawfulness, neutrality and non-discrimination. There are high levels of Islamophobia and the public discourse has become increasingly xenophobic. Political speech has taken on highly divisive and antagonistic overtones particularly targeting Muslims and refugees. Alleged practices of ethnic profiling by the police, against persons belonging to Black and Muslim communities in particular, continue to be reported.

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Austria Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism | Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung 2019 Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung (2019), Verfassungsschutzbericht 2018, Wien. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, (2019), Report on the protection of the constitution 2018, Vienna. Hate crime Muslims

In 2018, the Austrian security authorities registered a total of 1,075 right-wing extremist, xenophobic/racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and unspecific or other criminal acts, in the course of which relevant offences were reported to the authorities. One criminal act may comprise several offences separately reported to the authorities. Compared to 2017 (1,063 offences), the number increased by 1.1 percent. 677 criminal acts, that is 63 percent, were successfully solved. In 2017, the rate of successfully solved cases amounted to 58.1 percent. In connection with the criminal offences mentioned, 1,622 offences were reported in Austria in 2018, which is 2.9 percent more than in 2017 (1,576 offences).

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Austria Council of Europe, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance 2018 European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), ECRI Conclusions on the implementation of the recommendations in respect to Austria subject to interim follow-up, Adopted on 21 March 2018, Published on 15 May 2018, CRI(2018)21. Racism & xenophobia General population

In its report on Austria published on 13 October 2017, ECRI recommended that the Austrian authorities merge the various anti-discrimination acts and institutions of the Federation and the Länder in order to improve the protection afforded to victims of racism and discrimination. ECRI now concludes that this recommendation has only been partly implemented. In its previous report on Austria, ECRI strongly recommended that Austria ratifies the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems. It now concludes that this recommendation has not yet been implemented.

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