Montenegro
Montenegro has reported information on hate crimes to ODIHR, most recently for the 2019 and 2021 Hate Crime Reports. Montenegro implemented ODIHR's Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme in 2014 and updated the training in 2022 following changes to the country's hate crime legislation in 2018. In 2017, Montenegro adopted measures to allow for the effective prosecution of hate crimes following the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Alkovic v. Montenegro (No. 66895/10).
OFFICIAL DATA
Year | Hate crimes recorded by police | Prosecuted | Sentenced |
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2022 | 3 | Not available | 602 |
2021 | 7 | - | 5 |
2020 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2019 | 31 | - | 3 |
2018 | - | 0 | 1 |
2017 | Not available | Not available | 1 |
2016 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2015 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2014 | Not available | Not available | 0 |
2013 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2012 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2011 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2010 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2009 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
About 2017 Data
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Five sentenced cases were reported to ODIHR, but most were decisions on the crime of violation of equality, a discrimination provision, or various speech offences, falling outside the OSCE's concept of hate crimes.
Hate crime recorded by police
KEY OBSERVATION
ODIHR observes that Montenegro has not periodically reported to ODIHR the number of hate crimes recorded by police.
INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES
INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Racist and xenophobic hate crime, Anti-Roma hate crime
In its "Concluding observations on the combined fourth to sixth periodic reports of Montenegro", the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed concern at violence against Roma people and at the absence of updated and comprehensive disaggregated data on hate crimes. The Committee recommended that the authorities firmly counter acts of racist violence against any ethnic group, in particular Roma, and punish perpetrators with sanctions commensurate to their acts.