Czech Republic

The Czech Republic regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. The Czech Republic's hate crime laws consist of a combination of general and specific penalty-enhancement provisions and substantive offences. The data reported to ODIHR combine hate crime and hate speech. Hate crime data are collected by the Informatics and Analytical Centre of the Criminal Police and the Investigation Service of the Police Presidium, the Analytical and Legislative Department of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office and the Informatics Department of the Ministry of Justice. Hate crime data are published annually by the government in a Report on extremism.

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OFFICIAL DATA

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2020	32	28	59
2019	42	39	50
2018	46	47	43
2017	47	29	44
2016	49	30	72
2015	64	20	29
2014	24	32	41
2013	41	43	24
2012	173	289	159
2011	238	284	158
2010	252	287	52
2009	265	228	103

About 2010 Data

Figures represent total number of criminal offences with an extremist context.

By bias motivation
By type of crime

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National developments

In October 2010, a Czech court found four men guilty of racially motivated attempted murder. The men were convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails into a house inhabited by Roma in Vitkov, resulting in a two-year-old child suffering severe burns. Three of the perpetrators were sentenced to 22-year prison terms and the other to a term of 20 years.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Anti-Roma hate crime

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) reported eight physical assaults, two of which involved serious bodily injury, and five cases of arson, all of which involved the throwing of Molotov cocktails at Roma homes. One arson attack injured 14 people and was publicly denounced by the then-Prime Minister; the perpetrators were apprehended, convicted and sentenced.