Slovakia

Slovakia regularly reports police data and data on sentencing to ODIHR. Slovakia's criminal code includes substantive offences and a specific penalty enhancement clause affixed to a large number of base offences. While sentencing data only comprise hate crimes, police data also include hate speech offences. The Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor's Office collect hate crime data. The data on hate crime are not made public.

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OFFICIAL DATA

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2019	50	38	8
2018	41	20	15
2017	34	16	10
2016	10	9	3
2015	6	30	2
2014	3	Not available	4
2013	7	Not available	7
2012	102	Not available	16
2011	242	Not available	16
2010	Not available	Not available	10
2009	132	Not available	18

About 2009 Data

Police figures include crimes of incitement to hatred and hate speech offences (“extremist” crimes), while sentencing figures comprise hate crimes only.

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National developments

The criminal code was amended in 2009. Article 424 covers incitement to national, racial and ethnic hatred and criminalizes, in certain specific situations, the act of threatening an individual or group of people based on their race, nation, nationality, colour of skin, ethnicity, origin or religion, if the threat is motivated only on these grounds. The acts criminalized under Article 424 are subject to a term of imprisonment of up to three years, or from two to six years in the presence of certain aggravating circumstances (commission of the act in association with a foreign power or agent, publicly, for a special bias, in the capacity of a public official, as member of an extremist group or in a crisis situation).

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

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The UN Human Rights Council, in its Universal Periodical Review, encouraged Slovakia to improve the investigation and prosecution of racist crimes.

Anti-Roma hate crime, Anti-Semitic hate crime

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) expressed concern about the increase in racially-motivated physical and verbal attacks over the past few years against members of ethnic minorities, including Roma. It also expressed concern about anti-Semitism.