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Austria

Austria regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Austria's hate crime laws are a combination of a general penalty-enhancement provision and a substantive offence. The data reported to ODIHR do not present cases of hate crime and hate speech separately. Hate crime data are collected by the Provincial Agencies for State Protection and Counter Terrorism and the Federal Agency for State Protection and Counter Terrorism (BVT) of the Interior Ministry, as well as by the Ministry of Justice. Hate crime data are regularly published.

Hate crime data collection in Austria
Support for hate crime victims in Austria
Access more information at the Legislation Online website Legislationline TANDIS Access more information at the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System (TANDIS) website

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OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
2020 156 436 169
2019 125 421 191
2018 307 407 208
2017 302 Not available Not available
2016 425 Not available Not available
2015 395 Not available Not available
2014 186 Not available Not available
2013 110 Not available Not available
2012 91 Not available Not available
2011 59 38 1
2010 101 1 1
2009 62 Not available Not available

About 2010 Data

    Figures represent the total number of offences with xenophobic/racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim motives. Austria provides hate crime data disaggregated by bias motivation, and separately, by crime type. Data broken down by bias motivation only is presented here. Data includes crimes of incitement to hatred.
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Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Hate crime against Christians and members of other religions

The Holy See and the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians reported a serious physical assault on a Catholic youth and two cases of damage to church property.

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Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The Centre for Work against Ethnic Discrimination (ZARA) reported five physical assaults, one of which resulted in serious bodily injury, one threat, one arson attack and one attack by a group.

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Anti-Semitic hate crime

The Stephen Roth Institute reported four anti-Semitic hate incidents.

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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

No information is available.

KEY OBSERVATION

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