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Timestamp: 2018-03-22 19:14:33+00:00

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Discrimination | Verfassungsblog
Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party stands a fair chance of becoming the largest party after the elections next week. His political programme is blurry at best, but parts of it – such as a ban of the Quran – are clearly unconstitutional. Will the constitutional system in the Netherlands be robust enough to withstand this challenge?
Geert Wilders’ “Incitement to Discriminate” Trial
Mo 7 Nov 2016
Months before the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party and election favorite Geert Wilders finds himself before a criminal court. He is charged with insulting and inciting discrimination against residents of Moroccan descent by promising his supporters “fewer Moroccans” in 2014. Wilders and his defence seem to invoke the theory of the ‘marketplace of ideas’, which is a common line of thinking in United States First Amendment law. The principal standard for Dutch courts however, the European Convention of Human Rights, takes a somewhat different stance.
Gerichte, Gesellschaftliches, Grundrechtliches
Art. 10 ECHR, Discrimination, Freedom of Speech, Hate Speech, Incitement of Racial Hatred
Die Neonazi-Aufmärsche von Gyöngyöspata 2011 haben Ungarn eine Verurteilung vor dem EGMR in Straßburg eingebracht – und den Staaten Europas die klare Ansage, Hasskriminalität als HASSkriminalität zu verfolgen und die Augen vor rassistischen Motiven von Straftaten nicht zu verschließen.
Antiziganism, Art. 3 ECHR, Art. 8 ECHR, Discrimination, Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Racism
Sa 2 Apr 2016
While islamophobia is on the rise after the carnages of Paris and Bruxelles, recent developments in Italy may foster the confidence in the freedom of religion of European Muslims. In a ground-breaking decision, the Italian Constitutional Court has nullified a regional “anti-mosques law” enacted by the Lombardy Region one year ago, discriminating the Muslim community of this rich and populated area of Northern Italy.
Discrimination, federalism, freedom of religion, Italian Constitutional Court
Schengen und die versteckte Wiedereinführung der Grenzkontrollen
Verstößt es gegen Schengen, dass Busunternehmen gezwungen werden, die Pässe ihrer Kund/innen zu kontrollieren? Gut möglich, hat das Oberverwaltungsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg entschieden und dem Antrag eines Busunternehmen stattgegeben, das eine derartige Verfügung erhalten hatte. Das Verfahren ist über Deutschland hinaus von Bedeutung und könnte sich auch auf die Strafbarkeit des Schleusens auswirken, wenn man das Antidiskriminierungsrecht hinzuzieht.
border control, carrier sanctions, Discrimination, Immigrant Smuggling, Racial Profiling, Schengen
So 8 Nov 2015
France, once the motherland of human rights, is increasingly clamping down on freedom of expression. According to a recent decision by the French Supreme Court, calling for boycott on Israeli goods is illegal under french law. Fourteen members of the activist group Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS), campaigning for the economic, academic, sports and cultural boycott of Israel, learned it the hard way in two decisions of October 20th which confirmed on the highest level of criminal jurisdiction their conviction to 12,000 € in damages and 1,000 € in fine. Joining Israel, France makes for the only european country to penalize boycott calls on products of Israeli origin.
Boycott, Discrimination, Freedom of Expression
Bürgerkriegsflüchtlingen, die internationalen Schutz genießen und Sozialhilfe beziehen, wird in Deutschland von den Behörden ein verbindlicher Wohnsitz zugewiesen. Das, so Generalanwalt Cruz Villalón in seiner wohl letzten Amtshandlung, dürfte so pauschal europarechtswidrig sein: Flüchtlinge dürfen nicht nach ihrem Rechtsstatus diskriminiert werden, und das bloße Ziel, die Belastung der Kommunen besser zu verteilen, rechtfertige eine solche Ungleichbehandlung nicht. Und das ist im Schatten des epochalen “Schrems”-Urteils nur eine von vielen weit reichenden Luxemburger Neuigkeiten dieses denkwürdigen Tages.
Deutschland, Europa, Frankreich, Vereinigtes Königreich
Alo/Osso, åkerberg fransson, CJEU, Cruz Villalón, Delevigne, Discrimination, franchise, Prisoner's right to vote, refugees, Residence restriction
Racial Profiling is unconstitutional
Alexander Tischbirek, Tim Wihl
It can be debated, whether it merely constitutes an act of “highbrow legalism” (as the chairman of the German Police Union put it) to enforce the non-discrimination rule in art. 3 par. 3 of the German Grundgesetz. The Superior Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate in the city of Koblenz, however, ordered the supremacy of the Constitution […]
Discrimination, Racial Profiling, Substantive Equality

References: Art. 10
 EGMR 
 Art. 3
 Art. 8
in fine
 art. 3