The numbers presented here refer to police investigations that were initiated as hate crimes. Incidents of hate speech, which fall outside of the OSCE's definition of hate crime, were not included.
In 2019, two workshops on combating crimes motivated by racism and xenophobia were organized for police officers, with the aim of improving their investigative skills.
This category includes 59 offences motivated by bias against Christians.
All hate crimes in this category were motivated by bias against sexual orientation, except for one case of incitement to violence motivated by bias against gender identity.
This category includes 17 hate crimes for which the bias motivation could not be clearly classified and 86 hate crimes motivated by a bias based on "world view".
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 Poland."
ODIHR observes that Poland has not reported on hate crimes separately from cases of hate speech.
Kantor Center reported descriptive incidents as well as statistical data. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.