Italy - 2012
Is there a legal definition of hate speech?
- Code:
- RED22
- Key Area:
- Anti-racist Crime Legislation & Implementation
- Strand(s):
- Racism
| Short Answer |
No. |
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| Qualitative Info |
The Immigration Act contains a “black list” of discriminatory acts, roughly corresponding to the scope of application of the Race Directive (although the list in the Immigration Act is a non-exhaustive one), providing remedies from the realm of civil law. Besides these rules, existed (and are still in force) some criminal law provisions contained in the 1993 act aimed at sanctioning the diffusion of “hate speech” and racist propaganda, which provide harsh punishments for “acts of discrimination on racial, ethnic, national or religious grounds”. Since the government did not abolish the pre-existing statutes, these antidiscrimination rules coexist with the provisions aimed at implementing the Directives. Source: Report on Measures to Combat Discrimination, Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC, Country Report -Italy by Alessandro Simoni - http://www.non-discrimination.net/content/media/2007-IT-Country%20Report%20Final.pdf |
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| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Ethnic minorities | |
| Type (R/D) | Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Inter-ethnic, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia | |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Anti-discrimination, Anti-racism | |
| External Url | http://www.non-discrimination.net/content/media/2007-IT-Country%20Report%20Final.pdf | |
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