Slovakia
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). The workshop resulted in a set of recommendations to relevant state authorities. There is a high degree of hate crime specialization in both police and prosecutor structures.
OFFICIAL DATA
Year | Hate crimes recorded by police | Prosecuted | Sentenced |
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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
KEY OBSERVATION
ODIHR observes that the law-enforcement agencies of the Slovak Republic have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.
Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See
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.