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Criminal Law – Hate Crime – Incitement to Hatred
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young men were charged with incitement to hatred consisting in the
distribution of flyers in a secondary school. The flyers contained
degrading messages about homosexuality, int. al. blaming gay men for the
up-come and spreading of hiv and connecting homosexuality to sexual abuse
of children. They were convicted by the district court... 060706
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Criminal Law – Hate Crime – Incitement to Hatred
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20 year old man was charged with incitement to hatred in his capacity as
responsible editor for a web site run by a neo-nazi grouping called
National Socialist Front. On the web site were posted two articles, one
containing degrading messages about homosexuality and another about roma.
The Court aquitted the man, making specific reference... 060412
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Criminal Law – Hate Crime – Incitement to Hatred
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pastor summoned local parishers to a sermon where he had announced that he
would preach against homosexuality. The pastor held a long sermon,
developing his religious beliefs with regard to homosexuality. The sermon
contained several parts that were grossly degrading to homosexuals as a
group in society, blaming them for the upcome... 051129
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Criminal Law – Hate Crime – Incitement to Hatred
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man was accused of publishing on the internet certain messages with a
grossly degrading content with reference to on the one hand gay people on
the other roma. He was charged with incitement to hatred and was sentenced
to 1 month in prison.
(District Court of Norrköping, ruling 2
November 2005 in case no B 521-05)... 051102
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Criminal Law – Incitement to Hatred – Internet Web Sites
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teenage boy applied for membership with an internet site catering
primarily to gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Once a member he published
homophobic messages with degrading and threatening content on the site. He
was convicted of incitement to hatred against homosexuals as a group. Due
to his low age he was sentenced to a fine, thereby... 050613
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Criminal Law – Incitement to Hatred – Internet Web Sites – Religion
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private person running a web site on the Internet with religious contents,
published grossly homophobic statements on the site. Some of them were
written by himself but he also published messages from others with a
similar content. Criminal charges were brought against the man by the
public prosecutor and he was convicted of one account... 050426
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Incitement to hatred – Criminal Law – Homophobia
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man was convicted of incitement to hatred with reference to sexual
orientation (Chapter 16 Section 8 of the Swedish Penal Code), among other
offences, for carrying in public a t-shirt with the text ‘Faggot hater –
Sweden’. He was sentenced to a 2 months suspended prison term, under
probation and with an obligation to... 041216
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Incitement to hatred – Criminal Law – Homophobia
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men were convicted, among other offences, of incitement to hatred with
reference to both race and sexual orientation (Chapter 16 Section 8 of the
Swedish Penal Code) for carrying out nazi salutes in public. They were
sentenced to suspended prison terms and an obligation to do community
service.
(District Court of Karlstad,... 041022
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Incitement to hatred against a population group - New Edition of the Bible
The question of whether certain passages in the Bible may be considered to
constitute incitement to hatred against a population group
Application of Chapter 16, Section 8, of the Swedish Penal code,
Chapter 7,Section 4, sub-section 11, of the Freedom of the Press Act and
Chapter 5, Section 1, of the Fundamental Law on Freedom... 030121
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