Slovakia | HCRW

Slovakia regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Slovakia has implemented ODIHR's Training Against Hate Crime for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme since 2017 and the Prosecutors and Hate Crime Training (PAHCT) programme since 2018. In 2018, the Ministry of Interior co-organized with ODIHR and the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights a workshop on understanding and improving hate crime recording and data collection, based on ODIHR's Information Against Hate Crimes Toolkit (INFAHCT). There is a high degree of hate crime specialization in both police and prosecutor structures in Slovakia.

The Committee for the Prevention and Elimination of Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Other Forms of Intolerance was established as a Government advisory body. The Committee established working groups on hate speech on the internet and anti-Semitism, in line with the Memorandum on Cooperation between the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Slovakia. The working groups include representatives of the police and prosecutor's office, as well as civil society organizations focusing on human rights, anti-Roma racism, and anti-Semitism.

SELECT YEAR

Download the 2014 hate crime report for Slovakia

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2023	46	Not available	5
2022	28	16	12
2021	20	13	15
2020	20	16	6
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

Hate crime recorded by police

National developments

More than 30 criminal police detectives and investigators were trained in two in-service training workshops on extremism carried out by the Ministry of Interior in 2014. These workshops also contained sessions on hate crime concepts and bias indicators.

Some 50 social workers working predominantly with marginalised Roma communities were trained by the Ministry of Interior on the concept and impact of hate crimes. More trainings will follow in 2015.

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that the law-enforcement agencies of the Slovak Republic have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime, Anti-LGBTI hate crime

In its fifth report on Slovakia, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) noted the amendments to aggravating circumstances provisions in the criminal code and reiterated the need for detailed statistical data on racist and homophobic/transphobic hate crime.

Anti-Roma hate crime

In its report on Slovakia, the United Nations Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) raised concerns about increased violence against the Roma community and condemned violent attacks against Roma committed by law-enforcement personnel. It recommended special training on human rights and tolerance for police officers, the investigation and prosecution of all perpetrators of hate crimes against Roma, and amendments to the criminal code to increase punishments for racially motivated crimes committed by police officers.