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The standard adopted for determining who qualifies as a 'victim' for the purposes of seeking relief was broad in the case, with the Human Rights Committee and the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination disagreeing as to the exact scope of the standard. The standard established by the
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found that the statements in question "ideas based upon racial superiority or hatred," and that "the deference to Hitler and his principles and 'footsteps' must ...be taken as incitement at least to racial discrimination, if not to violence. As such, the "exceptionally/manifestly offensive"
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the deference to Hitler and his principles and 'footsteps' must in the Committee's view be taken as incitement at least to racial discrimination, if not to violence
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Temperman, Jeroen (2015). "Comparative international perspectives: CERD and the European Court of Human Rights on the 'right to be free from incitement'".
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the prohibition of all ideas based upon racial superiority or hatred is compatible with the right to freedom of opinion and expression
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6 - Comparative international perspectives: CERD and the European Court of Human Rights on the 'right to be free from incitement'
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would involve prohibiting Nazi organizations, which it considered would go too far and be incompatible with the right to
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would involve prohibiting Nazi organizations, which it considered would go too far and be incompatible with the right to
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Some witnesses filed a complaint with the police, and Sjølie was charged with a violation of section 135a of the
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Afterwards the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination found that the acquittal by the
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statements were not protected by the due regard clause. It found as such, that the acquittal by the
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The case involved an antisemitic speech given during a march in commemoration of the Nazi leader
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Human Rights Committee in 2003 has "also been adopted by the European Court of Human Rights."
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In 2000, a group known as the "Bootboys" organized a march in commemoration of
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On 15 August 2005, it delivered the decision. The Committee reaffirmed that
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Compass - Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People (2012 edition
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On 9 March 2005, the Committee declared the communication admissible.
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On 17 June 2003, representatives of the Jewish community and the
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The Supreme Court of Norway found that penalizing approval of
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Index

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Rudolf Hess
Nazism
freedom of speech
Supreme Court of Norway
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Rudolf Hess
Terje Sjølie
Nazi salute
Sieg Heil
Norwegian Penal Code
Halden City Court
Borgarting Court of Appeal
Supreme Court
Nazism
freedom of speech
Norwegian Antiracist Centre
sic
Convention
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Supreme Court of Norway
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Det Mosaiske Trossamfund






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