the ministry of Justice going through all the so-called paint, the persons related to the criminal code hate speech clause, said justice minister Anna-Maja Henriksson (r.) today the court reporter of the occasion.

He said it was in favour himself of the premise, according to which the prosecutor would be entitled to blame the officials subjected joukkoista of the hate speech campaign from those guilty of this crime without a victim I have the right to take the case to criminal investigation. The ministry are now examined, to what extent this would be possible, and the minister wants to wait for officials to review before the final conclusions.

for Example, the illegal threat is a matter of the owner of the criminal, i.e. the criminal case is victim of its own active thread.

according to the minister it’s important, because the hate campaign you can at worst affect the entire rule execution.

we’re on a very dangerous road, if you are trying to influence prosecutors, judges and journalists. Them, which play a key role in a rule of law. The government now wants to invest in hate speech against, Henriksson said.

Police, prosecutors and judges are asking the public for more effective ways to address them is allocated to increasing your harassment and hate campaigns. Also archbishop emeritus Kari Mäkinen led by the hate speech working group stated in may that the paint process should be able to intervene more effectively, because the current legislation does not account adequately the situations where one person instigates several people to attack individual people.

Law pui be just a hate campaign

at the Same time when Henriksson take a position on hate speech, the Helsinki court of appeal case deals with the concrete level, existing legislation means. The district court noted that the Russian information influence research by the journalist-author Jessikka Aro got his job because of aggressive a form of hate campaign.

the Aro has told me, that his quality of life will be seriously undermined the profession, it became hard for and against him at least hate the campaign to be in the hottest part of the also impulsive threat of violence.

hate campaign, was sentenced to court russia’s support of Eastern Ukraine separatists of the “Donetsk people’s republic” as the official representative of a performer Johan Bäckman and MV release based on Ilya Janitskin . They both deny now the court of appeal of guilty to the crimes.

the District court according to the Kazakh Steppe was distracted, inter alia, through the publication of her false and defamatory writings in Russian pienmedioissa, blogs and social media. Also Aron’s phone number was published, and unknown people started sending Steppe threats and call for this.

Henriksson: Hate speech can lead to acts

the minister Henriksson wondering why some riders hate speech, greater freedom of expression.

I have been wondering about for a long time, why do some people think that it is important to be able to say something so ugly and insulting as possible, Henriksson said.

according to Him, for example, mps should act as a value leader and set an example for good behavior.

– Step hatred of the deeds is there, and this is already in the EU examples. Such an atmosphere does not want in this country, Henriksson said.

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