Norway

Norway regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Norway's criminal law contains specific penalty enhancements for certain criminal offences. The reported official data include cases of incitement to hatred. Hate crime data are collected by the National Police Directorate. Hate crime statistics are regularly published. The National Police Directorate conducts annual victimization surveys, which include questions about hate crime.

Hate crime data collection in Norway
Support for hate crime victims in Norway

OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
2020 744 804 67
2019 761 70 37
2018 624 60 37
2017 549 Not available Not available
2016 466 Not available Not available
2015 347 Not available Not available
2014 223 Not available Not available
2013 238 Not available Not available
2012 216 Not available Not available
2011 218 Not available Not available
2010 307 Not available Not available
2009 236 Not available Not available

About 2015 Data

    The sum of disaggregated figures below add up to more than the total because crimes can be recorded under more than one bias motivation. Norway reported that the total figure includes 159 cases of violent crime.

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

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Reports

Disability hate crime

Stop Discrimination reported five physical assaults, including one committed by a group against a man with learning disabilities and one incident causing serious injuries to a man in a wheelchair; two incidents of vandalism, including one in which an assistance vehicle was damaged; and a robbery against a woman in a wheelchair.

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Racist and xenophobic hate crime

SETA reported two physical assaults, one of which involved the stabbing of a Muslim man of African descent, while the second was carried out by a group that targeted two Kurdish men

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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

In its "Concluding observations on the combined twenty-first and twenty-second periodic reports of Norway", the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that a clear definition of hate crime be adopted in the Criminal Code, that a national system for registering hate crimes be established, that data on hate crimes be provided, that law enforcement be trained, and that all hate crimes be effectively investigated and prosecuted.

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that Norway has not reported on hate crimes separately from cases of hate speech.