Indicator history

The article of the Criminal Code on incitement against community[1] provides with protection against non-violent conduct motivated by racism, xenophobia or other bias motive (e.g. homophobia[2]), according to which anyone publicly inciting hatred against the Hungarian nation or any national, ethnic, racial or other groups of the population shall face punishment for a felony offence with imprisonment for up to three years.

The article of the Criminal Code on ban of denying, doubting, or trivialising genocide or crimes against humanity committed by totalitarian regimes[3] originally dealt only with holocaust denial or trivialising (it came into force in February 2010). A few months later, as a result of legislative initiatives of the newly elected Hungarian government, this sub-paragraph was amended (entered into force in July 2010). The new version of this paragraph is extended to the crimes of both ‘national socialist’ and ‘communist regimes’, and the term ‘holocaust’ is no longer there in the text. The current form of this legislation covers a broader range of crimes than the Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA does.