Hate crime

Hate speech and hate crimes should be included in the EU's list of crimes.

This is said in an initiative from today presented by the European Commission.

The idea was announced by EC President Ursula von der Leyen in her 2020 State of the Union speech.

People carrying the larges-evert Montenegrin flag of 5,000 square meters during Independence Day celebrations in Cetinje. Photo: EFE-EPA/BORIS PEJOVIC

Coronavirus variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid misreporting and stigmatizing nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.

The new system applies to variants of concern - the most troubling of which four are in circulation - and the second-level variants of interest being tracked.

Twitter said he had violated “hate speech”

Far-right organisations and networks in Europe have seen the global protests that followed the murder in the US of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic as opportunities to develop and spread, according to a new report by three organisations, Hope not Hate in the UK, Expo from Sweden and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation from Germany.

A leading LGBT association in Croatia welcomed Thursday's European Court of Human Rights ruling condemning the country's response to a violent homophobic attack in a nightclub a decade ago as "ineffective".

New Zealand police and intelligence services made a string of errors ahead of last year's Christchurch mosques attack, but may not have been able to prevent the massacre of 51 Muslim worshippers, an inquiry found on Dec. 8.

Human Rights House Zagreb said in its annual report published on Friday that "as in previous years, war crimes prosecutions were stagnant" in Croatia in 2019, while hate speech and intolerance toward minorities persisted in the public arena and the digital environment.

The man who committed the worst atrocity in New Zealand's modern history when he slaughtered 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques unexpectedly pleaded guilty to all charges on March 26.

A man opened fire in a mosque in northeastern Paris on March 8 night, seriously wounding one person, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The mosque is located on Rue de Tanger in the city's 19th administrative district, a religiously and culturally diverse part of the capital.