Finland

The Penal Code of Finland

Chapter 11 – War crimes and crimes against humanity

Section 10 - Ethnic agitation (511/2011)

A person who makes available to the public or otherwise spreads among the public or keeps available for the public information, an expression of opinion or another message where a certain group is threatened, defamed or insulted on the basis of its race, skin colour, birth status, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation or disability or a comparable basis, shall be sentenced for ethnic agitation to a fine or to imprisonment for at most two years.

Section 10(a) – Aggravated ethnic agitation (511/2011)

If the ethnic agitation involves incitement or enticement

(1) to genocide or the preparation of genocide, a crime against humanity, an aggravated crime against humanity, a war crime, an aggravated war crime, murder, or manslaughter committed for terrorist intent, or
(2) to serious violence other than what is referred to in paragraph 1 so that the act clearly endangers public order and safety,
and the ethnic agitation also when assessed as a whole is aggravated, the offender shall be sentenced for aggravated ethnic agitation to imprisonment for at least four months and at most four years.

Keywords

Incitement to genocide
Incitement - other crimes



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