Swiss Criminal Code

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Art. 261bis

Dis­crim­in­a­tion and in­cite­ment to hatred

 

Any per­son who pub­licly in­cites hatred or dis­crim­in­a­tion against a per­son or a group of per­sons on the grounds of their race, eth­nic ori­gin, re­li­gion or sexu­al ori­ent­a­tion,

any per­son who pub­licly dis­sem­in­ates ideo­lo­gies that have as their ob­ject the sys­tem­at­ic den­ig­ra­tion or de­fam­a­tion of that per­son or group of per­sons,

any per­son who with the same ob­ject­ive or­gan­ises, en­cour­ages or par­ti­cip­ates in pro­pa­ganda cam­paigns,

any per­son who pub­licly den­ig­rates or dis­crim­in­ates against an­oth­er or a group of per­sons on the grounds of their race, eth­nic ori­gin, re­li­gion or sexu­al ori­ent­a­tion in a man­ner that vi­ol­ates hu­man dig­nity, wheth­er verbally, in writ­ing or pictori­ally, by us­ing ges­tures, through acts of ag­gres­sion or by oth­er means, or any per­son who on any of these grounds denies, trivi­al­ises or seeks jus­ti­fic­a­tion for gen­o­cide or oth­er crimes against hu­man­ity,

any per­son who re­fuses to provide a ser­vice to an­oth­er on the grounds of that per­son’s race, eth­nic ori­gin, re­li­gion or sexu­al ori­ent­a­tion when that ser­vice is in­ten­ded to be provided to the gen­er­al pub­lic,

is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.


1 In­ser­ted by Art. 1 of the FA of 18 June 1993 (AS 1994 2887; BBl 1992 III 269). Amended by No I 1 of the FA of 14 Dec. 2018 (Dis­crim­in­a­tion and In­cite­ment to Hatred on the Grounds of Sexu­al Ori­ent­a­tion), in force since 1 Ju­ly 2020 (AS 2020 1609; BBl 2018 3773 5231).

 

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