A total of 1,237 hate crimes were originally reported to ODIHR. The number of individual crime reports was 899, as one crime report can include several hate crimes. This number included cases of ethnic agitation, defamation and discrimination, which were removed and are not presented here. With the consent of the Roma community, hate crime against Roma people has been included as a category separate from Racism and Xenophobia.
November 2019 marked the end of a two-year project "Against Hate", funded by European Commission Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme and co-ordinated by the Ministry of Justice. Project activities were focused on developing hate crime reporting and strengthening the capacities of police, prosecutors and judges to handle cases of hate crime and hate speech, as well as on improving support for hate crime victims. The project included training activities, including five regional training events for police officers, prosecutors and judges in May 2019. A hate crime manual for prosecutors and judges was developed, and a shadow report on reported hate crime cases was published in March 2019. In November 2019, the project released three episodes of a podcast dealing with hate crime. The project also saw the publication in March 2019 of a shadow report on victims' experiences of hate crimes, aimed at including their perspectives in discussions on the issue (https://www.riku.fi/binary/file/-/id/79/fid/2142). Unlike the report on hate crimes by the Police University College, this report drew on qualitative rather than statistical data, and focused on the experiences and needs of victims. This type of data gathering will continue in the "Facts against Hate", launched in December 2019 and co-ordinated by Ministry of Justice.
The figures presented here cover the following grounds: race/colour, ethnicity/national origin, citizenship and language.
This category also includes hate crimes committed among Shia and Sunni Muslims.
Official data for hate crimes motivated by bias against lesbian, gay and bisexual people (40 hate crimes) and by bias against transgender people (12 hate crimes) were reported separately, but are presented together here.
The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers published relevant recommendations in its "Resolution on the Implementation of the Framework Convention for the protection of National Minorities by Finland."
ODIHR observes that Finland has met most OSCE commitments on hate crime data collection and reporting.
Kantor Center reported only statistical data. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.